Large open valley with extensive shrub and herbaceous wetlands.;Floodplain with a mosaic of old oxbows and levees. The community is a woodland with hemlock/alder growing on linear hummocks with soft bottomland swales between. The swales are dominated by Leersia and Symplocarpus. Sphagnum and Vaccinium are confined to the hummocks. Tsuga cored (+50 yrs.). Some tree "trunks" are adventitious sprouts from downed trunks.
Representativeness
Small patch woodland/alder thicket. The plot was placed to include Polemonium and Cacalia and centered on a group of Tsuga.