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:
Tree Cover
70
%
Shrub Cover
15
%
Field Cover
90
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot in a very open red oak dominated forest. Sparse shrub layer, but dense, fern dominated herb layer. Soils have a deep, moist, organic rich A-horizon. Several of the forbs were hard to detect beneath the dense cover of Dennstaedtia.
Plot located ca. 50 m north of northernmost radio tower of north-facing slope amid dense Dennstaedtia.
Measured trees in plot (dbh in cm.): Quercus rubra (24.8).