Mountaintop with extensive Oak - Hickory forests, including some moist areas with Basswood and lush stands of interrupted fern. Rocky area on ridgetop may be slightly less rich but no Oak - ericad. Lower slopes have shale barrens on warm aspects.;Ridge shoulder on NW flank of Kate's Mountain. Community is a rich Oak - Hickory forest with hop hornbeam in subcanopy over a diverse herb layer. Forest lightly managed for timber probably. No stumps, but some apparent stump sprouts in largest size class. Circumneutral soils, although ridge cap rock is sandstone.
Representativeness
Matrix forest on ridgetop. Plot may be slightly dryer due to position and aspect - other areas have abundant Osmunda, Tilia etc.