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: Scrubby south edge of a small embayed marsh ca. 0.1 miles north of the confluence of Indian Creek and the Northwest River. Center of plot marked with a 1" white PVC pipe.
Organic matter= thatch-covered muck.
Mapped as MH- Mixed alluvial land, but soil core indicates equivalency to Pocaty Peat on North Landing River.
A somewhat scrubby marsh ---> forest transition zone characterized by Salix carolinana and tussocks of the sedge Carex stricta.