095-RAND-0021
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Plot ID Fields:
Author Plot Code	095-RAND-0021
Author Observation Code	095-RAND-0021
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Confidentiality Status	100 km radius (nearest degree)
Latitude	39 º
Longitude	-80 º
State or Province	West Virginia
Named Places	county: Randolph region|state|province: West Virginia
Layout Fields:
DSG Polygon	20 (X) x 20 (Y)
Shape	Obs. Ponit
Area	400 m²
Permanence	not permanent
Environment Fields:
Elevation	1067 m
Topographic Position	Plain/bottom
Landform	headwater basin
Rock Type	limestone
Landscape Narrative	Recovering clearcut, surrounded by good quality frost pocket spruce forest and spruce swamp. Adjacent Coberly property is high quality with cave, twinflower, snowberry, goldthread, bunchberry, and other rare plants in spruce forest.;Spruce - fir forest with natural openings that were clearcut 1980-1982. Dave Saville, who was there at the time notes that the deep organic soils dried and cracked in the sun, but the area never burned. Now there is vigorous young spruce regeneration amid the large stumps. A few native balsams that pre-date the cut remain. Many young balsams were planted by Dave Saville. The fetterbush probably pre-date the cut also, there are only 3 shrub-clumps of fetterbush totaling 7 sq.m. The community is a marginal wetland, probably getting wetter each year as the forest grows up again.
Representativeness	The only occurrence (to my knowledge) of Pieris floribunda as an understory shrub in a (marginal) wetland. Usual habitat of this shrub is rocky ridgetops.
Hydrologic Regime	moist
Percent Bedrock	0 %
Percent Rock / Gravel	0 %
Percent Wood	0 %
Percent Litter	90 %
Percent Bare Soil	5 %
Percent Water	0 %
Percent Other	5 %
Name Other	clear cut
Methods Fields:
Observation Start Date	09-Oct-2005
Project	West Virginia NHP
Cover Method	Percentage (%)
Stratum Method	National Park Service
Taxon Observation Area	400 m²
Overall Taxon Cover Values are Automatically Calculated?	no
Plot Quality Fields:
Plot Validation Level	(2) classification plot: sufficient for inclusion in a classification revision
Floristic Quality	complete
Bryophyte Quality	complete (species >=1% cover)
Overall Plot Vegetation Fields:
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Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative	Picea rubens - Abies balsamea / Pieris floribunda / Carex brunnescens woodland

Taxa occurring on this plot-observation
Change plant label: --Choose a value-- Author's plant name Original Interpretation, full Scientific Name Original Interpretation, Scientific Name without authors Original Interpretation, USDA Code Original Interpretation, Common Name Current Interpretation, full Scientific Name Current Interpretation, Scientific Name without authors Current Interpretation, USDA Code Current Interpretation, Common Name
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ord Author Plant Name Original Interpretation, full Scientific Name Original Interpretation, Scientific Name without authors Original Interpretation, Common Name Original Interpretation, USDA Code Current Interpretation, full Scientific Name Current Interpretation, Scientific Name without authors Current Interpretation, Common Name Current Interpretation, USDA Code Stratum Cover Original Cover Code Basal Area Biomass Inference Area Stems: Stem Diameters (graphically): 1 Picea rubens Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Canopy 25 %         -none- 2 Tsuga canadensis Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Canopy 0.5 %         -none- 3 Abies balsamea Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Canopy 0.5 %         -none- 4 Picea rubens Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Tall Shrub 15 %         -none- 5 Pieris floribunda Pieris floribunda **   Pieris floribunda **   Pieris floribunda **   Pieris floribunda **   Pieris floribunda **   Pieris floribunda **   Pieris floribunda **   Pieris floribunda **   Tall Shrub 2 %         -none- 6 Abies balsamea Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Abies balsamea **   Tall Shrub 1 %         -none- 7 Rhododendron maximum Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Tall Shrub 1 %         -none- 8 Rubus Rubus **   Rubus **   Rubus **   Rubus **   Rubus **   Rubus **   Rubus **   Rubus **   Short Shrub 1 %         -none- 9 Vaccinium myrtilloides Vaccinium myrtilloides **   Vaccinium myrtilloides **   Vaccinium myrtilloides **   Vaccinium myrtilloides **   Vaccinium myrtilloides **   Vaccinium myrtilloides **   Vaccinium myrtilloides **   Vaccinium myrtilloides **   Short Shrub 1 %         -none- 10 Picea rubens Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Short Shrub 1 %         -none- 11 Rhododendron maximum Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Rhododendron maximum **   Short Shrub 1 %         -none- 12 Tsuga canadensis Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Tsuga canadensis **   Short Shrub 0.5 %         -none- 13 Carex brunnescens Carex brunnescens **   Carex brunnescens **   Carex brunnescens **   Carex brunnescens **   Carex brunnescens **   Carex brunnescens **   Carex brunnescens **   Carex brunnescens **   Herbaceous 10 %         -none- 14 Carex leptalea ssp. leptalea Carex leptalea ssp. leptalea **   Carex leptalea ssp. leptalea **   Carex leptalea ssp. leptalea **   Carex leptalea ssp. leptalea **   Carex leptalea ssp. leptalea **   Carex leptalea ssp. leptalea **   Carex leptalea ssp. leptalea **   Carex leptalea ssp. leptalea **   Herbaceous 5 %         -none- 15 Gaultheria hispidula Gaultheria hispidula **   Gaultheria hispidula **   Gaultheria hispidula **   Gaultheria hispidula **   Gaultheria hispidula **   Gaultheria hispidula **   Gaultheria hispidula **   Gaultheria hispidula **   Herbaceous 3 %         -none- 16 Eriophorum virginicum Eriophorum virginicum **   Eriophorum virginicum **   Eriophorum virginicum **   Eriophorum virginicum **   Eriophorum virginicum **   Eriophorum virginicum **   Eriophorum virginicum **   Eriophorum virginicum **   Herbaceous 2 %         -none- 17 Dennstaedtia punctilobula Dennstaedtia punctilobula **   Dennstaedtia punctilobula **   Dennstaedtia punctilobula **   Dennstaedtia punctilobula **   Dennstaedtia punctilobula **   Dennstaedtia punctilobula **   Dennstaedtia punctilobula **   Dennstaedtia punctilobula **   Herbaceous 1 %         -none- 18 Picea rubens Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Herbaceous 0.5 %         -none- 19 Dryopteris intermedia Dryopteris intermedia **   Dryopteris intermedia **   Dryopteris intermedia **   Dryopteris intermedia **   Dryopteris intermedia **   Dryopteris intermedia **   Dryopteris intermedia **   Dryopteris intermedia **   Herbaceous 0.5 %         -none- 20 Lycopodium hickeyi Lycopodium hickeyi **   Lycopodium hickeyi **   Lycopodium hickeyi **   Lycopodium hickeyi **   Lycopodium hickeyi **   Lycopodium hickeyi **   Lycopodium hickeyi **   Lycopodium hickeyi **   Herbaceous 0.5 %         -none- 21 Polytrichum strictum Polytrichum strictum **   Polytrichum strictum **   Polytrichum strictum **   Polytrichum strictum **   Polytrichum strictum **   Polytrichum strictum **   Polytrichum strictum **   Polytrichum strictum **   Nonvascular 20 %         -none- 22 Cladonia Cladonia **   Cladonia **   Cladonia **   Cladonia **   Cladonia **   Cladonia **   Cladonia **   Cladonia **   Nonvascular 10 %         -none- 23 Sphagnum rubellum Sphagnum rubellum **   Sphagnum rubellum **   Sphagnum rubellum **   Sphagnum rubellum **   Sphagnum rubellum **   Sphagnum rubellum **   Sphagnum rubellum **   Sphagnum rubellum **   Nonvascular 1 %         -none- 24 Sphagnum Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Nonvascular 1 %         -none- 25 Sphagnum Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Sphagnum **   Nonvascular 0.5 %         -none- 26 Picea rubens Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Picea rubens **   Tree 40 %         -none-
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Stratum Definitions:
Stratum Type Stratum Base Stratum Height Stratum Cover Herbaceous       Short Shrub 0.5 m 1 m 0 % Tall Shrub 1 m 2 m 20 % Canopy 5 m 10 m 30 % Tree       Nonvascular
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