Vegetation Survey on the Virginia Barrier Islands - Species by habitat, 1974

This dataset contains observations by Cheryl McCaffrey during a 1974 mapping of the vegetation on the barrier islands of the Virginia Coast Reserve (McCaffrey, CA, Dueser RD. 1990. Preliminary Vascular Flora for the Virginia Barrier Islands. Va. J. Sci.. 41:259-281. http://www.vacadsci.org/vjsArchives/V41/41-4A/p259.pdf) It also includes additional observations by Terry Cook on Hog Island in 1989. Note, because the primary purpose of this survey was mapping, species are listed if they were observed, but no extraordinary efforts were made to list all species on a particular island. Thus, an observation indicates that a species was there, but lack of an observation does not necessarily mean that the species was absent.