Photo Point 145

Photo: 
Photo date: 
October 5, 2008
Photo credit: 
Jim Malusa
View looking: 
W
UTM Coordinate
Zone: 
12
E: 
524417
N: 
3575102
Height
Elevation: 
971 m
In feet: 
3185 ft

Vegetation:

Life form: shrub
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Aloysia wrightii co-dominant 10-14%

0.6m - Data from foreground slope unless otherwise noted.

Calliandra eriophylla common 1-4%

0.3

Celtis pallida common <1%
Fouquieria splendens uncommon <1%
Encelia farinosa co-dominant 10-14%

0.6 m

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

2

Prosopis velutina common 1-4%

2.5

Life form: cactus
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Carnegiea gigantea common 1-4%

All sizes

Cylindropuntia bigelovii common <1%
Opuntia engelmannii common <1%
Life form: grass
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Muhlenbergia porteri common 1-4%
Pennisetum ciliare common 40-59%

Dominant on background slope; uncommon in foreground

Aristida ternipes common 1-4%
Bothriochloa barbinodis common 1-4%
Pleuraphis mutica common 1-4%

0.25m - Only on background slope

Life form: forb
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Janusia gracilis common 1-4%