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: In wooded swamp just east of Blackwater Road and adjacent to the boardwalk access, 0.15 miles NNW of Milldam Creek Bridge. Plot center marked with a 1" white PVC pipe.
Tree base hummocks; Taxodium distichum knees abundant.
A rather young Taxodium distichum-dominated swamp forest occupying coarse peat substrates bordering a tributary channel and marshes of Milldam Creek. Carex hyalinolepis, which thrives in various ecotonal or edge habitats of the North Landing River, dominates the herbaceous stratum in large, rhizomatous colonies.