To determine the response of honeysuckle, forbs, grasses, and shrubs of a piedmont pine forest to fire, prescribed burns were conducted in April of 1978 and 1979 in an experimental forest of the Ecological Reserve at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina. The two fires reduced coverage and crown volume of honeysuckle by 35 and 80 percent, respectively. Shrub coverage and crown volume also decreased, while grasses and forbs increased. The results indicate that mild surface fires in the spring may rapidly alter the composition of ground flora of piedmont pine stands without significantly affecting the understory and overstory tree strata.