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
1
m
Tree Cover
70
%
Shrub Cover
50
%
Field Cover
70
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Site is part of a mile long series of bluffs, steep slopes and ravines along the Nottoway River, supporting a mature hardwood forest. Community is an excellent example in which Fagus, Acer barbatum and Aesculus sylvatica are dominants. Trees measured (dbh in cm.): Quercus rubra (90), Carya cordiformis (91), Acer barbatum (60), Liriodendron tulipifera (46).
Plot location: North end of Peninsular bluff alonf Nottoway River, 0.15 miles east of the mouth of Rocky Run.