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
32
m
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot location: east side of Bennet Creek in vicinity of Quaker Neck.
A dry-mesic, convex bluff-top apparently representative of scattered habitats along Bennetts Creek. The vegetation has a very dense, evergreen understory dominated by Ilex opaca var. opaca and Kalmia latifolia and fits the concept of a "Piedmont/Coastal Plain Heath Bluff" (Schafale and Weakley 1990) quite well. A short distance to the north, large Fagus grandifolia are important in the canopy mix; these are absent in the plot sample.