Nearby old field terraces are being replanted with trees. Lower slopes have mixed deciduous successional forests (NCTC.21).;Upper terrace within 100 year floodplain, but probably rarely flooded. Terraces were cleared and farmed. Some are still old fields and others have thick stands of young box elder like this plot. Canopy is about 4 m tall near monoculture of box -elders with weedy native and exotic herbs in understory. There are a couple browsed out red cedars which likely pre-date the box-elder.
Representativeness
Small patch successional box elder thicket on abandoned farmland. Early spring sample. Needs late season herbs.