A quantitative vegetational analysis was conducted on the Third Chickasaw Bluff of Shelby County, Tennessee using quadrat sampling. The study revealed five distinct communities ranging from ridges and dry slopes, moist slopes, streambeds and ravines, bottomland hardwoods to cypress swamp. Coefficients of similarity show that the composite vegetation composition has a closer relationship to the loess bluffs of Vicksburg, Mississippi than the bluffs of northwest Tennessee. Furthermore, the vegetative composition of the study area is more similar to those described in the Cumberland Plateau region far to the east than to the adjacent alluvial plain.