Photo Point 206

Description: 
Montrose Canyon, Catalinas
Photo: 
Photo date: 
October 26, 2008
Photo credit: 
Jim Malusa
View looking: 
SW
UTM Coordinate
Zone: 
12
E: 
510864
N: 
3587052
Height
Elevation: 
1099 m
In feet: 
3605 ft

Vegetation:

Life form: grass
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Eragrostis spp. common 1-4%
Pennisetum ciliare common 1-4%
Bouteloua curtipendala common 1-4%
Heteropogon contortus common 1-4%
Life form: forb
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Ambrosia confertiflora common 1-4%
Life form: shrub
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Ambrosia ambrosioides uncommon <1%
Hyptis emoryi common 1-4%
Dodonaea angustifolia common 1-4%
Acacia greggii common 1-4%
Celtis pallida uncommon <1%
Fouquieria splendens common 1-4%
Calliandra eriophylla common 5-9%

0.3

Jatropha cardiophylla uncommon <1%
Encelia farinosa common 1-4%

0.6

Coursetia glandulosa dominant 5-9%

1.6

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