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
5
m
Tree Cover
30
%
Shrub Cover
15
%
Field Cover
50
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot in a lower portion of a large, dry, woodland characterized as a Blue Ridge shale barren. The presence of shaly bedrock outcrops and thin, shallow to bedrock soils promote lithophytes. Measured trees (dbh in cm.): Quercus montana (45).
Above this plot in grassier vegetation exists many plants not recorded in the plot, namely Senecio anonymus, Juniperus virginiana, Solidago bicolor, Sorghastrum nutans, Andropogon virginicus, Aster patens, Diospyros virginiana, Eupatorium godfreyanum, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Gnaphalium obtusifolium, Hypericum gentianoides, Bulbostylis capillaris, Isanthus brachiatus and at lest one clump of Pellaea atropurpurea, perhaps reflecting the iron rich chemistry of the bedrock.