Photo Point 214

Description: 
Romero Canyon, Catalinas
Photo: 
Photo date: 
October 26, 2008
Photo credit: 
Jim Malusa
View looking: 
NW
UTM Coordinate
Zone: 
12
E: 
512373
N: 
3586067
Height
Elevation: 
1201 m
In feet: 
3940 ft

Vegetation:

Life form: grass
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Bouteloua hirsuta common 1-4%
Muhlenbergia emersleyi common 1-4%
Bothriochloa barbinodis common 1-4%
Heteropogon contortus common 1-4%
Eragrostis intermedia common 1-4%
Life form: tree
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Quercus arizonica common <1%
Quercus emoryi common <1%
Quercus oblongifolia common 1-4%
Life form: shrub
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Garrya wrightii rare <1%
Calliandra eriophylla common 1-4%

0.3 m

Pseudognapthalium sp. common <1%
Dasylirion wheeleri common <1%
Mimosa biuncifera common <1%
Dodonaea angustifolia dominant 15-24%

1.6 m - note: hopbush is abundant on the slopes, dry and moist, as well as the canyon bottom. Most appear to be the same age class, i.e., a single cohort.