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:
--no data--
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot location: North side of Milldam Creek, 0.6 miles east of Blackwater Road Bridge. Plot center marked with a 1" white PVC pipe.
Vegetation in plot is typical of channel edge levees supporting tall, graminoid marshes. Panicum virgatum is a major associate of the dominant Spartina cynosuroides on these levees.
0-10cm - Mostly gray peat (H5) with a little silt; water table at 5cm
10-20cm - peat (H8/H9) with some silt
20-30cm - very frim, fine fibrous peat (H8/H9); 1cm thick rhizomes to 40cm deep
30-65cm - peat (H4)
65-70cm - peat (H8); ;looser
70+cm - liquid soup (cannot be extracted).