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
17
m
Shrub Height
6
m
Field Height
1
m
Tree Cover
70
%
Shrub Cover
20
%
Field Cover
15
%
Nonvascular Cover
7
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot is located in a depression at the very upper headwaters of a tributary to Cherry Orchard Branch. An open woodland of Nyssa biflora occurs here with open herb and shrub strata and mosses on tree bases, hummocks of vegetation, and on the ground. The depression is upstream of a road that crosses this narrow drain. A culvert passes under the road and water appears to have periodically dammed up along the north side of the depression as a result. This impounded area was excluded from the plot and supports denser herbaceous vegetation with scattered Cephalanthus occidentalis.