Valley bottom is mostly cleared for agriculture. This is one of the few remaing forest blocks in floodplain. Most of this block is successional cherry - black locust - balck maple forest on higher terraces. Small patch near plot has sycamore over - black maple with sparse understory (but no buckeye).;Broad valley bottom in floodplain of lower Chenoweth Creek, with larger floodplain of Tygart Valley river. Site is an old oxbow, now disconected from main creek, but with flotsom from recent large flood event. Forest is dominated by large sycamore mixed with smaller elms and box-elder. Herb layer has high cover by mesophytic species, with relatively few weeds.
Representativeness
Small patch of forested oxbow with large sycamore, wetter than more extensive successional floodplain forest.
