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
80
%
Field Cover
15
%
Nonvascular Cover
15
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot located at upper edge of flat seepage basin at head of hollow 0.15 mi SSE of Sunset Field, in a very impressive, 15 acre stand of virgin hemlocks ranging up to 112 cm in dbh. Core data indicates that trees 80 cm dbh are in the 275-300 year age range, so that the larger specimens here must be considerably older. Laportea canadensis, a mesophytic indicator, is present in very small numbers as a spill over from the richer slope above.