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
5
%
Shrub Cover
90
%
Field Cover
90
%
Nonvascular Cover
1
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
A sparse pitch pine woodland, with scrub oak cover almost continuous. Fire within probably the last decade killed most of the trees oaks, Coppice stems are now 1-2 inches in diameter. There are lots of Quercus ilicifolia skeletons among the new live stems, which are as big now as the old ones. In places there are openings in the scrub oak and low heath, where flaggy cobbles are exposed, mostly covered with moss and lichen and here and there supporting Lycopodium tristachyum. Fire has prevented succession to oak-pine forest only on the convex slopes here. The more level crest has open oak-pine forest with a similar understory.
Iris verna, Uvularia puberula, Comptonia peregrina, Vaccinium angustifolium, and Cypripedium acaule recorded and cover of Menziesia pilosa estimated October 1995.
Plot located ca. 125 ft ESE of point on FR 180 ca. 550 ft south and uphill from hairpin turn. Plot center 11.28 m at 100 degrees from 7-ft tall charred pine stump.
2 - 0 - Oi: mostly oak and ericad leaves
0 - 10 - Oe/a: black
10 - ? - A?: very stony fine sand, reddish-brown
? - 50 - B?: very stony fine sand, reddish-brown, becoming a little clayier at ca. 25 cm; stones and gravel in soil reddish, while exposed boulders resemble quartzite
50 - R?
Disturbance Data:
Disturbance Type
Disturbance Intensity
Disturbance Comment
unknown
Fire appears to have been through within the last 10 years.
