To the North ca. 70m is the river with a Platanus occidentalis-Betula nigra woodland and a Carex emoryi zone along the shore. To the South 30m is an intermittently flooded back channel (BLUE.80). The slope above the back channel appears to be mixed-meso.;The plot was placed on a flat alluvial plain in-between an intermittently flooded back channel (BLUE.80) and the Bluestone River. The forest is dominated by several tall white pines and tulip poplars with a dense tall shrub layer of great laurel. The forest floor is open and bare with almost no herb or low shrub layer. The overall feel of this community, except for the Rhododedron, this is your standard Pinus strobus-Liriodendron tulipifera successional forest.
Representativeness
Small patch of successional forest on the floodplain dominated by Pinus strobus -Liriodendron tulipifera/Rhododendron maximum. The plot was placed to sample the Rhododendron which seems to be a species somewhat uncommon in the study area.