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
Shrub Cover
50
%
Field Cover
70
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
A spring flows just below the surface at the plot. Because this area was selectively logged, it is difficult to reconstruct the original vegetation structure. I suspect, based on the presence of light demanding rare plants (Parnassia grandifolia, Sanguisorba canadensis, and Solidago uliginosa), that this area once had a woodland physiognomy, dominated by Pinus strobus and Acer rubrum. Seepage water is evidently high in dissolved magnesium and nutrient poor. This community occurrence is most similar to the Physocarpus opulifolius - Sanguisorba canadensis thickets along Meadow Creek.
Plot lies a few meters south of the creek in selectively logged area east of barbed wire fence, in a shrubby clearing where a spring enters the creek.
