Hardly any part of this community is purely hemlock-spruce. Most is mixed in with red maple, red oak, and yellow birch. Low herb diversity with Dryopteris and Oxalis most prominent. The hemlock tend not to be in the canopy, but just short of it. No notable shrub layer. Upslope are purely northern hardwoods. There is a canopy gap at the edge of the plot with high fern cover.
Representativeness
Cool low slope mix of northern hardwoods and hemlock-spruce forest.