List of Little Picacho Wilderness flora

The flora of the Little Picacho Wilderness located in southeastern Imperial County, Southern California. It is within the Colorado Desert subregion, of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion

The Little Picacho Wilderness is located in the southern portion of the Lower Colorado River Valley, with its eastern side along the Colorado River (Little Picacho Wash runs ~ 1.5 miles (2 km) downstream); and is 10 miles (16 km) north of Yuma, Arizona and Winterhaven, California. The wilderness area protects a region of the southeastern Chocolate Mountains.

Complete list of flora: Genus-species-(binomials)

Perennials

Perennials: Common name

Perennials: Genus-species-(binomials)

Trees, perennials: Common name

Trees, perennials: Genus-species-(binomials)

Annuals

Common name

Genus-species

See also

References

  1. ^ Colorado DesertLandforms, Picacho Mountains.,[1][2]
  2. ^ Picacho SRA, Beavertail Cactus
  3. ^ Peucephyllum schottii, Sonoran Desert Plants, packrat middens, Whipple Mountains, 11,500 bp; Picacho Peak, 11,000 bp; p 315-317.
  4. ^ Bur. of Land Management, Little Picacho Wilderness. (photo gallery) Archived 2010-07-10 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Winter 2005-2006, Indian Pass Wilderness & Little Picacho; [3]
  6. ^ Winter 2005-2006, Indian Pass Wilderness & Little Picacho; [4]
  • Creosote bush and Bursage, Lower Colorado River Valley-(with photo).
  • Turner, Bowers, & Burgess. Sonoran Desert Plants; an Ecological Atlas, Raymond M. Turner, Janice E. Bowers, Tony L. Burgess, c 1995, Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson. 504 pages.

External links

  • BLM: Little Picacho Peak Wilderness—(Ocotillo at foothills); BLM photo gallery — Ocotillo, on mountains).
  • Winter 2005-2006: — Trip 1: Indian Pass Wilderness, Little Picacho, and Cargo Muchacho Mountains — with Desert Ironwood (Oleneya tesota) & Blue Paloverde (Parkinsonia florida) images.
  • Picacho SRA: Beavertail Cactus
  • Colorado Desert Landforms: Picacho Mountains; UCSB: "Colorado Desert, Picacho Mountains" — Brittlebush next to Ocotillos.

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