Inner Piedmont / Lower Blue Ridge Basic Oak - Hickory Forest – CEGL008514

Mockernut hickory (Carya tomentosa), chestnut oak (Quercus montana), and white oak (Quercus alba) in a mature, basic oak-hickory forest on eastern slope of High Point Mountain near Hopewell Gap, Bull Run Mountains, Fauquier County.  The herb layer is atypically sparse due to heavy herbivory by white-tailed deer.