Across the river is a steep riparian bank with a narrow strip of tall herbs. Upslope is a floodplain terrace forest with white pine and behind that is a backchannel forest with sycamore.;This is a riverside cobble bar community along a rapid zone. The community is an open woodland of Platanus occidentalis and Betula nigra with Andropogon gerardii dominating the herb layer. The trees here are bent, coppiced, and killed by high energy flooding.
Representativeness
The Plot is centered on a small patch of Platanus occidentalis - Betula nigra dominated by Andropogon gerardii in the herb layer. About 1m range in relative elevation in the plot with more sparse Andropogon gerardii at the lower section of the terrace cl