Downslope are oak - hickory - sugar maple forest, white oak forest, and valley bottom is currently in pasture and grazed by horses. In the past the valley bottom was used as a horse race track. No fence line between pasture and upland forest.;Upper hill slope in Karst topography. Community is a small patch of cedar woodland with patches of shade under cedar and more open areas between. Community is probably a successional patch - boundaries with surrounding forest are abrupt. Small population of Delphinium exaltatum on the ecotone and in the adjacent forest. Rock fizzes with acid and soils are neutral. High herb diversity with few exotics.
Representativeness
Plot samples most of a small patch of red cedar woodland surrounded by oak - hickory -sugar maple forest. GPS coordinates were taken from the NE corner of the plot.