Photo Point 230

Description: 
Upper Peppersauce Canyon
Photo: 
Photo date: 
October 28, 2008
Photo credit: 
Jim Malusa
View looking: 
NE
UTM Coordinate
Zone: 
12
E: 
524971
N: 
3600341
Height
Elevation: 
1519 m
In feet: 
4983 ft

Vegetation:

Life form: grass
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Bouteloua curtipendala 5-9%
Life form: shrub
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Agave palmeri common <1%
Nolina microcarpa common 5-9%

1

Garrya wrightii co-dominant 10-14%

2.2

Arctostaphylos pungens co-dominant 10-14%

1.6m Data from foreground slope, southeast facing, quartzite.

Life form: tree
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Prosopis velutina uncommon <1%
Quercus emoryi common 5-9%

3.5

Juniperus coahuilensis common 5-9%

3