罗伯特·弗罗斯特(Robert Frost)的诗作《未选择的路》(The Road Not Taken)中写道:"And both that morning equally lay / In leaves no step had trodden black",描绘了林间小路与周围灌木丛的意象,与 undergrowth 的场景密切相关。弗罗斯特在诗中直接使用了"undergrowth"一词:"And be one traveler, long I stood / And looked down one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth."
托马斯·哈代(Thomas Hardy)在《远离尘嚣》(Far from the Madding Crowd)中多次使用该词描绘英国乡村的自然景观。
约瑟夫·康拉德(Joseph Conrad)的《黑暗的心》(Heart of Darkness)中用该词描写非洲丛林中茂密的林下植被,营造出压迫而神秘的气氛。