Downslope adjacent to the plot is roughly 10 m tall limestone cliff. Below the cliff is a red oak - yellow oak / Ironwood forest. Roughly 120 m W is CR 28/4. To the S ca. 500m is a limestone quarry. Upslope is a stunted forest of yellow oak - Eastern red cedar - white ash / Ironwood. See plot GRAN.44 for more context.;Edaphic shrubland above an exposed W facing limestone cliff. Dominant shrub species are Juniperus virginiana / Cercis canadensis - Ostrya virginiana. The ground is covered with small quarter to book sized limestone fragments. The dominant herbaceous plant is Paronychia virginica. This is the nicest patch of it I have ever seen. The community is also host to several other WV tracked plants such as; Monarda fistulosa var. brevis, Carex eburnea, Arenaria stricta, Solidago arguta var. harrisii and possibly more. Some fire char observed on bases of old half living Juniper trees.
Representativeness
Linear patch of open limestone glade represented by drought and fire gnarled Eastern red cedar over dozens of tussocks of yellow nailwort. This community is simialr to ones sampled at Smokehole only there the dominant herb is usually ebony sedge.
