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:
Tree Height
32
m
Shrub Height
5
m
Field Height
5
m
Tree Cover
90
%
Shrub Cover
65
%
Field Cover
65
%
Nonvascular Cover
1
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot is located on toe slope bordering a high floodplain terrace along the Potomac River and could possibly be flooded in rare (~100 year) catastrophic floods. Vegetation is a mature, lush, mixed mesophytic forest with Liriodendron tulipifera, Fagus grandifolia, Tilia americana, Fraxinus americana, and Carya cordiformis about equally dominant in the overstory. The herb layer is lush with spring ephemerals. The stand is representative of lower-slope forests in the eastern part of the Turkey Run Park. Oct. 2003: return visit revealed extensive tree damage from Hurricane Isabel, with at least one of the dominant overstory trees in the plot snapped off about 6 m above the ground.