This observation was uploaded from NatureServe's Ecological Observations Database (EcoObs), version 27 May 2016. Some data values may be midpoints of EcoObs classes (e.g. stratum height, slope, aspect).
Protected island edges that include mud flats inhabitated with graminoids and silver maple nurseries, buttonbush/river birch thickets and some exposed unvegetated silt bars. This plot represents the graminoid areas just above the unvegetated mud flats.