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
Stem Observation Area
400
m²
Plot Quality Fields:
Plot Validation Level
(2) classification plot: sufficient for inclusion in a classification revision
Overall Plot Vegetation Fields:
Tree Height
30
m
Tree Cover
80
%
Shrub Cover
10
%
Field Cover
90
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot location: Swift Creek Lake Floodplain off and west of the nose with Plot 2. See plot form for map.
Hummock and hollow microtopography.
The surrounding floodplain forest has Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Betula nigra, Pinus taeda, Acer rubrum. The plot is in the more open-canopy, graminoid rich edge of Swift Creek Lake. Damming of the creek and the naturalness of this community is debatable- well, the damming is not debatable, just the likelihood that the hydric conditions would exist otherwise.