Overflow floodplain with mixture of forest and successional herb/shrub communities. Plot is in intermediate zone between a forest with heavy herb cover on slighlty higher ground and lower ground with with dead trees and standing water. This narrow 10 m. zone has canopy dominated by Quercus palustris with understory having clumpy sedges/grasses and much exposed wet litter.
Representativeness
Relatively narrow zone of Quercus palustris with seasonal flooding, probably on most or all years. Plot is behind small levee from standing water. Area with standing water and dead trees is dominated by Saururus with saplings of Acer saccharinum and Fraxi