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: Pine forest on south side of Oakum Creek, 0.2 miles NE of its confluence with North Landing River.
Slight hummock and hollow microtopogrpahy.
The Pinus taeda forest represented in this plot is essentially a saturated flatwoods which is unusual in the North Landing River drainage. Bordering swamp forests and pocket marshes along Oakum Creek, the community may be a product of past disturbance, although similar estuarine fringe pine forsets are of natural occurrence in both Virginia and North Carolina.