Photo Point 296

Description: 
Ponderosa pine in the Wilderness of Rocks, Catalinas.
Photo: 

This photo is one of four (photo points 293-296) taken from the same photo station in each of the cardinal directions.

Photo date: 
September 7, 2009
Photo credit: 
Jim Malusa
View looking: 
E
UTM Coordinate
Zone: 
12
E: 
519461
N: 
3586853
Height
Elevation: 
2189 m
In feet: 
7182 ft

Vegetation:

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

14m NOTE: many ponderosa recruits of less than 1m, along with a cohort of about 15 ponderosa of 3-5m height class.

Quercus hypoleucoides co-dominant 10-14%

2.2

Quercus reticulata common 1-4%
Juniperus deppeana rare <1%
Life form: shrub
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Rhamnus californica common 1-4%
Ceanothus fendleri uncommon <1%
Arctostaphylos pungens rare <1%
Life form: forb
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Pteridium aquilinum common 1-4%
Life form: grass
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Muhlenbergia emersleyi common 1-4%