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
Stem Observation Area
100
m²
Plot Quality Fields:
Plot Validation Level
(2) classification plot: sufficient for inclusion in a classification revision
Overall Plot Vegetation Fields:
--no data--
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot location: Tidal marsh nrtheast of the archery range, the eastern edge of the bay.
Surface Substrate: Plot contains some decaying wood and the 5% water cover is tide dependent.
Measured slope (ave.): 0-3% (level or nearly so).
See plot form for drawing.
The plot is a narrow band of mixed marsh vegetation that lies between a nearly monotypic Peltandra community and a high marsh community of Salix caroliniana. Herbs in the high marsh community are very similar compositionally to the plot but differ in cover. Nuphar advena mud flats exist beyond the monotypic Peltandra.