Photo Point 015

Description: 
Mesa above lower Beuhman Canyon, north side
Photo: 
Photo date: 
March 27, 2008
Photo credit: 
Jim Malusa
View looking: 
NE
UTM Coordinate
Zone: 
12
E: 
543562
N: 
3588439
Height
Elevation: 
1021 m
In feet: 
3349 ft

Vegetation:

Life form: shrub
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Acacia constricta dominant 10-14%

1.5

Yucca elata common 1-4%

1.5

Parthenium incanum common 1-4%

0.5

Ephedra sp. common <1%
Zinnia acerosa common <1%
Larrea tridentata uncommon <1%
Isocoma tenuisecta common <1%
Life form: forb
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Dyssodia spp. common <1%
Psilostrophe cooperi common <1%
Life form: cactus
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Opuntia engelmannii common <1%
Life form: grass
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Bouteloua curtipendala common 1-4%

Grasses mostly absent from warm slopes, except for scattered Tridens pulchellus

Hilaria belangeri common 1-4%
Muhlenbergia porteri common 1-4%