Approximation #1
Lat/Long.: 37.9322, -78.6489
Trees and shrubs:
Other plants:
Unidentified:
Elevation: 800'
Aspect: Southeast facing, sparse woods.
Soils: Soil/silt trapped in small cracks in the granulite outcrop provide the nutrients needed.
Bedrock: Blue Ridge basement complex. Biotite-Muscovite Leucogranite Gneiss, Grenville-age rocks (1-1.1 billion years old). note: there is a seam of Meta-gabbro very nearby; it is an ultra-mafic rock, and is the same outcrop that provides the substrate at UVA in Charlottesville.
Conditions: drought conditions have persisted for over a month. The summer saw 69 days with 90-degree-or-higher temperatures. Since August 1st, we have received not more than 1 inch of rain.
Conditions: drought conditions have persisted for over a month. The summer saw 69 days with 90-degree-or-higher temperatures. Since August 1st, we have received not more than 1 inch of rain.
Trees and shrubs:
- mockernut hickory
- pignut hickory
- chestnut oak
- shortleaf pine
- eastern red cedar
- black locust
- pawlonia
- ailanthus
- Virginia pine
- black cherry
- redbud
- dogwood
- serviceberry
- huckleberry species
Other plants:
- Eastern prickly pear
Unidentified:
- a woody tick trefoil species
- raspberry species
- Eupatorium species
