Acidic soils support such plants as bilberry, climbing corydalis and heath bedstraw.
Sour cranberry or lingonberry jam and sweet bilberry jam are all considered excellent sauces for pancakes ("blynai").
Fresh bilberries may be put into a cold milk soup.
Tree branches are characteristically festooned with a variety of epiphytic mosses and lichens and, sometimes, by grazing-sensitive species such as bilberry and polypody.
The many berries grown in the area include cherries, bilberries, strawberries, rosa mosqueta and elders, which are made into jams.
The crop of bilberries was said to indicate how well the rest of the crops would fare in their harvests later in the year.
The site has plants including heather and bilberry.
With plant life dominated by heather and bilberry, the reserve provides important habitat for ground-nesting birds.
