Stand is adjacent to an ancient river levee (~10m tall) to the northwest. A few mowed pastures are interspersed within the overall fragment of relatively intact floodplain which covers about 30 hectares.;Remnant stand of red maple-black gum swamp with persistent but generally minor swamp white oak component. Stand occurs in an ancient channel of the Tygart River. Vegetated moss-covered hummocks rise about 20 cm above the flat, leaf-litter covered hollows. Deep muck soils underlie this plot. A few snags are present but not much downed wood and not much regeneration of canopy species. Second growth swamp.
Representativeness
Remnant stand of forested swamp. Plot placed to capture dominant Acer rubrum-Nyssa sylvatica canopy and representative shrub/herb layer for the stand.
