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:
Field Height
3
m
Tree Cover
50
%
Shrub Cover
30
%
Field Cover
30
%
Nonvascular Cover
3
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
A low Quercus - Liquidambar styraciflua - Pinus taeda open forest grown up some decades after clearcutting or selective cutting of pine. Depression between hummocks on which trees grow evidently flood, but there are no water lines on trees. Carex striata is a dominant herb here. It is absent from deeper depressions nearby and from nearby upland forest which appears never inundated. The maximum difference in microelevation between hummock and hollow is ca. 28 cm. Carex striata occupies the slopes of the hollows, but is absent from the deepest and the driest portions of the plot. The difference in elevation between this community and nearby, apparently drier forest is very subtle.
Plot located ca. 2.2 km SSE of Cashville and ca. 0.15 km (500 ft) east of end (at that time) of a dirt road leading in ca. 1.0 km (0.6 mi) from Rt. 638.
+4/1 - 0 - leaf litter
0 - 5 - Oe: brown
5 - 25 - brown-gray silty or clayey fine sand with abundant organic matter; root-rich
25 - 30 - dark gray, same texture, with pieces of charcoal; roots end here
30 - 65 - light gray clayey fine sand or fine sandy clay, with orange mottles
65 - 80 - gray fine sand with orange mottles
80 - 110+ - dull white fine sand, ca. 0.1 mm in diameter
Disturbance Data:
Disturbance Type
Disturbance Intensity
Disturbance Comment
unknown
Many large, old cut pine stumps now overgrown with moss