The woods creep closer, too, and for a while the way is filled with colorful wildflowers, hoptrees, table mountain pines and rhododenrons.

The forests are mainly Chestnut oak, Table Mountain Pine and Pitch Pine trees.

Pitch Pine is also at home in acidic, boggy soil, and Table Mountain Pine may occasionally be found in this habitat as well.

Pine forests, consisting chiefly of Table Mountain Pine, pitch pine, and Virginia pine, are found on the drier south-facing slopes.

After urging the Corsica 13 miles on a mercilessly winding gravel road, we parked and hiked 45 extremely vertical minutes to the summit, past rare mountain heather and Table Mountain pines (their bristles require fire to germinate).

Large outcroppings of this rock form rock overhangs along the trail as it descends to the Townsend Y. Roundtop's forest consists largely of Table Mountain Pine and Pitch Pine trees, which gives way to a mixed mesophytic forest in the coves and hollows at the base of the mountain.