The plot is located on the Wurlitzer Ranch on the south side of Pine Creek. It is on a gentle slope of a broad ridge running east to west in an irregularly shaped shallow swale in this Tuscan formation landscape. The stand is dominated by Trifolium variegatum and has abundant, emergent Deschampsia danthonioides.; This site is actively grazed by cattle, and has been grazed this season. There are cowpies in the stand.