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:
--no data--
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot location: 0.25 miles NNW of entrance to Suffolk Landfill on US13/58/460.
Slight hummock and hollow microtopography.
NOTE: Flooding very shallow, mostly in winter.
A young, more or less even-age stand of Acer rubrum and Liquidambar styraciflua, with a little Pinus taeda and very dense understories of Arundinaria gigantea ssp tecta. Scattered through the forest are a few seasonally flooded depressions, supporting Woodwardia virginica and several Carex spp. Similar communities are extensively distributed on mineral soils of the highly disturbed northern portion of the Great Dismal Swamp.