Releve Virginia Division of Natural Heritage, see http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/documents/nh_plotform_instructions.pdf
Overall Taxon Cover Values are Automatically Calculated?
no
Plot Quality Fields:
Plot Validation Level
(2) classification plot: sufficient for inclusion in a classification revision
Overall Plot Vegetation Fields:
Tree Cover
50
%
Shrub Cover
30
%
Field Cover
30
%
Nonvascular Cover
5
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Most of the shoreline on this side of the river is devoid of emergent vegetation due to high energy waters acting on a steep, eroding slope. However, a small feeder stream near the plot created an embayment with finer sediments and emergent vegetation. A few cypress trees with their profusion of "knees," seen to entrap silty sediments and protect the emergent herbaceous plants from the destructive forces of erosion from the river.
Other surface substrate consists of cypress knees. Trees measured in plot (dbh in cm): Taxodium distichum (~60, above buttress), Acer rubrum (~25).