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
90
%
Shrub Cover
30
%
Field Cover
70
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Soils are very rich, a function of colluvial deposition and nutrient transit and past severe floods which deposited nutrient rich alluvium. Many of the species noted in the plot are spring ephemerals; the aestival aspect is likely much different.
Measured trees in plot: Quercus rubra @ ca. 110 cm, Acer saccharum @ ca. 63 cm, Liriodendron tulipifera mostly < 30 cm. Floerkea proserpinaca added 1994-04-22.
Plot located on toe of slope, ca. 100 m south of southern end of Black Pond.
0 - 25 - A: silty loam, with virtually no stones or gravel; mod / f / gr; vfr
25 - 40 - B: silty loam, similar to A horizon but paler in color; mod / f / gr; vfr
Indistinct transition from A to B
Disturbance Data:
Disturbance Type
Disturbance Intensity
Disturbance Comment
unknown
No disturbance recently, but logged many years ago.