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 Cover
90
%
Nonvascular Cover
90
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
A partly inundated zone of a sinkhole peatland herbaceous community. About 20% of the plot area is inundated about 4 cm deep. The difference in microelevation within the plot is about 25 cm between hollows and top of hummocks.
Plot center is 15 m S72W from multi-trunk Acer rubrum with largest trunk ca. 3 cm dbh.
Soil pit intermediate between hummock and hollow.
0 - 11 - undecomposed peat
11 - 20 - rather well-decomposed peat (H7 on Von Post scale)
(14 - standing water level)
20 - 30 - almost completely decomposed and mud-like peat (H9 on Von Post scale)
30 - 50 - very dark gray, organic-mineral soil; mainly silt
50 - 60 - very dark gray clay
60+ - light gray clay with bright orange mottles