This community seems to occupy a large amount of this slope possibly to the ridge on this aspect. The warmer adjacent aspects are oak-heath.;This is a cooler aspect oak forest with a very rocky substrate that favors shrubs such as witch hazel and choke cherry rather than heaths. Ther are many canopy gaps and an uneven canopy. Very mixed age.
Representativeness
Cooler chestnut oak-red oak forest. Plot chosen for canopy gaps and shrub layer.