Photo Point 222

Description: 
Lower Peppersauce Canyon
Photo: 
Photo date: 
October 28, 2008
Photo credit: 
Jim Malusa
View looking: 
E
UTM Coordinate
Zone: 
12
E: 
529107
N: 
3600474
Height
Elevation: 
1349 m
In feet: 
4426 ft

Vegetation:

Life form: grass
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Eragrostis intermedia common 5-9%

Canyon bottom in background holds sycamore, cottonwood, juniper, and several saguaros perched atop bank.

Bouteloua curtipendala common 5-9%
Life form: tree
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Parkinsonia floridum rare <1%
Prosopis velutina common 1-4%

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Life form: shrub
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Agave palmeri uncommon <1%
Condalia warnockii rare Unknown
Gutierrezia sarothrae common <1%
Calliandra eriophylla uncommon <1%
Fouquieria splendens common <1%
Acacia constricta co-dominant 10-14%

2

Life form: cactus
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Cylindropuntia spinosior uncommon <1%
Opuntia engelmannii co-dominant 10-14%

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