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
30
%
Shrub Cover
50
%
Field Cover
90
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot in a bouldery stream bed and encompasses both wetland and upland microhabitats. Water flows beneath and around the granitic rocks. The stream drains a rich sugar maple/Impatiens pallida cove, so soils appear to be quite fertile. Thin wet streamside-stream bottom vegetation is characterized by Cimicifuga americana, Aconitum uncinatum and Saxifraga micranthidifolia. Measured trees (dbh in cm.): Fraxinus americana (40), Betula allegheniensis (42.7), Tilia americana (37.5), Carya ovata (50.9).