Plateau top has sub-xeric mixed oak-hickory with blueberries. Drain bottom has mesophytic forest on acidic colluvium.;Hot, dry shoulder slope above a small tributary valley of the Greenbrier River. Community is a mixed evergreen-deciduous forest dominated by tall pitch pine with deciduous oaks dominant in the subcanopy and maples abundant in tall shrub layer. Pine will probably break up and oak become dominant. There is a dense short shrub layer dominated by a clone of box-huckleberry.
Representativeness
Patch of pitch pine - oak forest. Plot is placed in area of box-huckleberry dominance but similar canopy is also extensive in areas without box-huckleberry, then blueberries and black-huckleberry are more abundant. Above plot on flat, pine drops out to xe
