Photo Point 022

Description: 
Cobbly flats below Davis Mesa
Photo: 
Photo date: 
March 27, 2008
Photo credit: 
Jim Malusa
View looking: 
NE
UTM Coordinate
Zone: 
12
E: 
540228
N: 
3592797
Height
Elevation: 
1055 m
In feet: 
3460 ft

Vegetation:

Life form: tree
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Parkinsonia microphyllum dominant 10-14%

3

Prosopis velutina uncommon <1%
Life form: cactus
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Opuntia engelmannii common 5-9%

0.7

Cylindropuntia fulgida common <1%
Carnegiea gigantea uncommon <1%
Cylindropuntia spinosior rare <1%
Life form: shrub
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Acacia constricta common 1-4%

1.2

Calliandra eriophylla common 1-4%

0.3

Ephedra sp. common 1-4%

0.5 (cropped — grazed?)

Zinnia acerosa common <1%
Fouquieria splendens common <1%
Life form: forb
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Psilostrophe cooperi common <1%