That's what mine started as, and what most fallow ground around here turns into within the first few years, and seems to want to stay indefinitely.

I figured out pretty early on in my life on my farmette that active maintenance and guided growth is necessary for a timescale of anything less than my and my children's entire lives to see the fruit of my labor. So now I have a beautiful woods of native hardwoods, but I am losing the fight to multi-flora rose and grape vines right now because I got lazy last year and didn't mow them.

Any ground left unmaintained around here follows the same pattern. Invasive species first (multi-flora rose, honeysuckle, crown vetch, those sorts of things), followed by brambles and native bushes with some fast growing trees (the locust I talked about as well as honey locust, river birch, red cedar, red haw, native honeysuckle, various vines, blackberry and raspberry).

That's pretty much where it stays for, well, honestly I don't know. Because any field around me that has gotten to that point in my lifetime is still there unless someone started maintaining it actively. I assume the slower growing trees follow (Oak, Hard Maple, Hickory, Chestnuts, Other nuts), but like I said, in my lifetime, I've never seen a patch get to that point without active maintenance.