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:
Field Height
1
m
Tree Cover
50
%
Shrub Cover
7
%
Field Cover
90
%
Nonvascular Cover
2
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot location: Just E of Cherry Tree Road at a point 0.1 mi S of Jct with Shacks Hole Rd.
A rocky, fairly rich woodland developed over a 50 acre sill of ultramafic rock. Frequent munitions-ignited wildfires maintain a sparse shrub layer and canopy gaps, favoring a prevalence for composites and legumes and legumes in the herb layer. In this plot, the federally endangered sumac Rhus michauxii thrives in the previously disturbed, bouldery woodland edge bordering Cherry Tree Rd.