Releve Virginia Division of Natural Heritage, see http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/documents/nh_plotform_instructions.pdf
Overall Taxon Cover Values are Automatically Calculated?
no
Plot Quality Fields:
Plot Validation Level
(2) classification plot: sufficient for inclusion in a classification revision
Overall Plot Vegetation Fields:
Shrub Cover
15
%
Field Cover
70
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot located on quaking mat of bog-like vegetation along eastern edge of old (200+ yr) millpond. Water 5 cm deep over mucky soil. Soil consists of medium to coarse sand and sandy gravel deposit of broad, bayward-sloping lowland.
Soluble salts 1434.
Other species recorded from site include Utricularia gibba, Glyceria obtusa, Symphyotrichum novae-belgii var. elodes, Centella erecta, Ilex glabra, and Osmunda regalis var. spectabilis. Fuirena squarrosa, Eleocharis tuberculosa, and Ptilimnium capillaceum occupy higher peat mat, and Nuphar luteum occurs in deeper water.