The Scour Bar Wet Meadow grows on unstable sandy or rocky bars and banks along the shores of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. Frequent flooding rearranges the sediment that supports the plants, so the location of this community can shift regularly. On the interactive map of Harpers Ferry NHP, this natural community is grouped with four other similar communities, under the name “Herbaceous Depositional Bar Complex.” These five communities are mapped together because individually they may exist in patches smaller than the scale used for this map and/or they may occur together in mosaic fashion.

Learn more about the Herbaceous Depositional Bar Complex.

Map tip: To better see where this occurs, go to the interactive map of Harpers Ferry NHP and search for "depositional."