Above plot quickly becomes very weedy with garlic mustard, cheat grass, Leonorus, Below plot is steeper and more open~continues similar to this plot then below that is rock with Virginia pine.;Southeast flank of mountain ridge, above an open bedrock exposure. Slightly deeper soils here support a stunted forest of mixed oaks with smaller hickories. Shrub layers are sparse, consisting of a few tree saplings. Understory is dominated by grasses and sedges.
Representativeness
Large patch of oak-hickory woodland / forest, continues in narrow zone horizontally above more open rocky glade. Squeezed plot between open pine glade downslope and weedy rich oak hickory upslope.