Wetter areas of oxbow have rice cutgrass marsh and shrub swamp with poison sumac in patchy mosaic with moats having standing water and Saggitaria. Additional swamp forest patches include red maple dominance and black gum dominance, also areas with black cherry over cinnamon fern. Active mill is 50 m from plot.;Wetland on urban/industrial edge in an abandoned river oxbow, now separated from river by roads and railroads. Natural communities maintained in an agricultural/industrial setting due to conditions too wet for development. Plot is an open forest with widely spaced swamp white oak. Light condtions are maintained by flood-killed snags in the canopy and subcanopy (mostly black cherry). Tall shrubs include holly and Viburnum.
Representativeness
Small patch of forested swamp with large swamp white oak.