releve Virginia Division of Natural Heritage, see http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/documents/nh_plotform_instructions.pdf
Overall Taxon Cover Values are Automatically Calculated?
no
Stem Observation Area
400
m²
Plot Quality Fields:
Plot Validation Level
(2) classification plot: sufficient for inclusion in a classification revision
Overall Plot Vegetation Fields:
Tree Height
29
m
Shrub Height
6
m
Field Height
7
m
Tree Cover
85
%
Shrub Cover
40
%
Field Cover
80
%
Nonvascular Cover
0.5
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Mostly well-drained, even-aged small-stream floodplain forest. Small depressions are present and an intermittent channel crosses the plot. The overall vegetation appears quite acidi-loving, but the sample is rather species-rich and the herb layer is well-developed. Similar vegetation extends discontinously along Pigeon Run above the Lake Anna impoundment, broken by occasional slopes and bluffs that extend to the stream and disrupted by a seroes pf beaver ponds upstream.