Middle of island is mostly Tuliptree with higher herb cover. Entire island floods regularly. Tip of island has battered deciduous forest / woodland / prairie.;Island with Hemlock floodplain forest at head and tail of island. Associates include Tuliptree, Red Oak, Beech, and some Sycamore. Substrate is sand and cobble alluvium w/ berms and swales, flotsam piles, buried wood. Old rotten sawn stump in plot.
Representativeness
Patch of Hemlock at head of island. Similar community continues downstream along main channel. Slightly less flooded Hemlock occurs at tail of island.