Fernald's Braya
Braya longii is a small, herbaceous, arctic-alpine flowering plant that grows only in the cool, wet and windy climate of the coastal limestone barrens of northern Newfoundland.
The Dorset Trail cuts through dramatic limestone barrens, featuring rare botanical species, fossils, and Dorset burial caves. The barrens are home to more than one hundred rare plants, including the yellow lady slipper orchid and the endangered Fernald’s braya, which grows nowhere else on earth.