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 Cover
30
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot located on relatively "young" deposit of overwash sand at the tip of a spit west of North Point. Vegetation represents an early successional stage of dune vegetation development. Closer to the water's edge such species as Spartina alterniflora, Symphyotrichum subulata, Iva frutescens, Suaeda sp., Distichlis spicata and more Spartina patens occur.
A whitish grasshopper is frequent; apparently it is Trimerotropis maritima.