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:
--no data--
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot location: ca. 0.1 miles N of Blackwater Road Bridge over Milldam Creek and just NE of TNC Boardwalk. Plot center marked with a 1" white PVC pipe.
Hummock and hollow microtopography.
Plot located in an ecotone or transition zone between a graminoid marsh and swamp forest along Milldam Creek. The scrub vegetation consisting of Myrica cerifera, Rosa palustris, Toxicodendron radicans and young Acer rubrum is typical, and also contains a mixture of marsh and swamp forest hebaceous species. The state-rare graminoid Cladium jamaicense, which is approaching its northern distributional limits, thrives here.