Strip mine landscape includes 3 physiognomies, this shrub/herb type, pine plantations, and black locust-autumn olive woodlands. See plots 288 and 289.;Strip mine reclamation on plateau top. Geology mapped as Pottsville formation, but substrate described as shale on plot form. Mine dump. Vegetation of this plot is shrub/herbaceous community dominated by planted and weedy exotics.
Representativeness
ELU 2214 (flat summit on sandstone plateau). Herbaceous stripmine vegetation.