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
Stem Observation Area
400
m²
Plot Quality Fields:
Plot Validation Level
(2) classification plot: sufficient for inclusion in a classification revision
Overall Plot Vegetation Fields:
--no data--
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot location: Approximately 0.1 miles S of US 29 opposite the Battery Heights Interpretive pull-off.
No surface rocks present.
This plot is situated in a shallow, seasonally flooded upland depression with plastic, claypan soils weathered from underlying diabase. Vegetation here is a woodland with widely spaced Quercus bicolor and Quercus palustris, few shrubs, and a graminoid-rich herb layer dominated by Carex pellita. The lowest point of the basin is open, with increasing density of trees outward to the edges.