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
5
m
Tree Cover
40
%
Shrub Cover
30
%
Field Cover
70
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot located above FR 4052, ca. 0.25 mi ESE of the entrance to Raven Cliff Recreation Area. The plot environment is a steep, SW facing convexity punctuated by a series of small cliff ledges with intervening shallow soiled slopes. Vegetation is an acidic outcrop barren floristically similar to some shale barrens, but occurring on sandstone. Additional study of this and similar vegetation on sandstone is needed to clarify their relationships to barrens on other substrates.