Downstream floodplain becomes wider and supports mostly deciduous floodplain forest. Upland slopes are mixed-mesophytic and oak-hickory.;Slope bottom with sandstone boulders near confluence of drainages where valley bottom becomes constricted. Community is a mixed evergreen-deciduous forest dominated by large beech and hemlock.
Representativeness
Near edge of hemlock signature (thunder threatening). Mature hemlock beech with canopy gap.