085-GJNF-0303
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Plot ID Fields:
Author Plot Code	085-GJNF-0303
Author Observation Code	085-GJNF-0303
Location Fields:	MAP: Google | Yahoo | TopoZone | MapQuest
Confidentiality Status	100 km radius (nearest degree)
Latitude	38 º
Longitude	-80 º
State or Province	Virginia
Named Places	county: Alleghany region|state|province: Virginia
Layout Fields:
DSG Polygon	10 x 30 m
Area	300 m²
Permanence	not permanent
Environment Fields:
Elevation	1023 m
Slope Aspect	310 º
Slope Gradient	36 º
Topographic Position	upper slope
Hydrologic Regime	terrestrial (upland)
Soil Moisture Regime	submesic
Soil Drainage	rapidly drained
Methods Fields:
Observation Start Date	11-Jul-1994
Observation End Date	11-Jul-1994
Project	Virginia Heritage
Cover Method	Carolina Vegetation Survey
Stratum Method	No Strata
Method Narrative	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	10 m
Tree Cover	50 %
Shrub Cover	15 %
Field Cover	15 %
Nonvascular Cover	50 %
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative	A presumed successional community of boulder talus. Betula lenta and Ribes rotundifolia are constant characteristic species. This community grades into Quercus montana and/or Quercus rubra dominated forests and woodlands on boulder talus. The occurrence of this community versus the oak dominated community appears correlated with steeper sloping talus, where higher erosion and substrate instability likely inhibits pioneering by woody species, and slows succession. The prominence here of Acer rubrum is not characteristic of this community generally. Plot located 1.5 mi NNW of Morning Knob, just off FR 175 on crest of Peters Mountain, on upper west slope in open, very bouldery Betula lenta woodland more or less opposite pull-off just before or northeast of place where road jogs around a bouldery depression on crest of mountain.

Taxa occurring on this plot-observation
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ord Author Plant Name Original Interpretation, full Scientific Name Original Interpretation, Scientific Name without authors Original Interpretation, Common Name Original Interpretation, USDA Code Current Interpretation, full Scientific Name Current Interpretation, Scientific Name without authors Current Interpretation, Common Name Current Interpretation, USDA Code Stratum Cover Original Cover Code Basal Area Biomass Inference Area Stems: Stem Diameters (graphically): 1 Betula lenta var. lenta Betula lenta var. lenta **   Betula lenta var. lenta **   Betula lenta var. lenta **   Betula lenta var. lenta **   Betula lenta var. lenta **   Betula lenta var. lenta **   Betula lenta var. lenta **   Betula lenta var. lenta **   -all-   37.5 % 7       -none- 2 Acer rubrum Acer rubrum **   Acer rubrum **   Acer rubrum **   Acer rubrum **   Acer rubrum **   Acer rubrum **   Acer rubrum **   Acer rubrum **   -all-   7.5 % 5       -none- 3 Acer spicatum Acer spicatum **   Acer spicatum **   Acer spicatum **   Acer spicatum **   Acer spicatum **   Acer spicatum **   Acer spicatum **   Acer spicatum **   -all-   7.5 % 5       -none- 4 Polypodium appalachianum Polypodium appalachianum **   Polypodium appalachianum **   Polypodium appalachianum **   Polypodium appalachianum **   Polypodium appalachianum **   Polypodium appalachianum **   Polypodium appalachianum **   Polypodium appalachianum **   -all-   3.5 % 4       -none- 5 Amelanchier arborea Amelanchier arborea **   Amelanchier arborea **   Amelanchier arborea **   Amelanchier arborea **   Amelanchier arborea **   Amelanchier arborea **   Amelanchier arborea **   Amelanchier arborea **   -all-   3.5 % 4       -none- 6 Ribes rotundifolium Ribes rotundifolium **   Ribes rotundifolium **   Ribes rotundifolium **   Ribes rotundifolium **   Ribes rotundifolium **   Ribes rotundifolium **   Ribes rotundifolium **   Ribes rotundifolium **   -all-   1.5 % 3       -none- 7 Scutellaria saxatilis Scutellaria saxatilis **   Scutellaria saxatilis **   Scutellaria saxatilis **   Scutellaria saxatilis **   Scutellaria saxatilis **   Scutellaria saxatilis **   Scutellaria saxatilis **   Scutellaria saxatilis **   -all-   1.5 % 3       -none- 8 Dryopteris marginalis Dryopteris marginalis **   Dryopteris marginalis **   Dryopteris marginalis **   Dryopteris marginalis **   Dryopteris marginalis **   Dryopteris marginalis **   Dryopteris marginalis **   Dryopteris marginalis **   -all-   1.5 % 3       -none- 9 Menziesia pilosa Menziesia pilosa **   Menziesia pilosa **   Menziesia pilosa **   Menziesia pilosa **   Menziesia pilosa **   Menziesia pilosa **   Menziesia pilosa **   Menziesia pilosa **   -all-   1.5 % 3       -none- 10 Parthenocissus quinquefolia Parthenocissus quinquefolia **   Parthenocissus quinquefolia **   Parthenocissus quinquefolia **   Parthenocissus quinquefolia **   Parthenocissus quinquefolia **   Parthenocissus quinquefolia **   Parthenocissus quinquefolia **   Parthenocissus quinquefolia **   -all-   1.5 % 3       -none- 11 Acer pensylvanicum Acer pensylvanicum **   Acer pensylvanicum **   Acer pensylvanicum **   Acer pensylvanicum **   Acer pensylvanicum **   Acer pensylvanicum **   Acer pensylvanicum **   Acer pensylvanicum **   -all-   0.505 % 2       -none- 12 Ilex montana Ilex montana **   Ilex montana **   Ilex montana **   Ilex montana **   Ilex montana **   Ilex montana **   Ilex montana **   Ilex montana **   -all-   0.505 % 2       -none- 13 Vaccinium angustifolium Vaccinium angustifolium **   Vaccinium angustifolium **   Vaccinium angustifolium **   Vaccinium angustifolium **   Vaccinium angustifolium **   Vaccinium angustifolium **   Vaccinium angustifolium **   Vaccinium angustifolium **   -all-   0.505 % 2       -none- 14 Heuchera hispida Heuchera hispida **   Heuchera hispida **   Heuchera hispida **   Heuchera hispida **   Heuchera hispida **   Heuchera hispida **   Heuchera hispida **   Heuchera hispida **   -all-   0.05 % 1       -none-
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