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)

Acacia greggii
Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia
Asclepias subulata
Bebbia juncea
Cercidium floridum
Chaenactis fremontii
Chorizanthe rigida
Cryptantha angustifolia
Dalea albiflora
Encelia farinosa^[1]
"ReDir" Eriogonum ssp.
- Desert trumpet
"ReDir" Euphorbia albomarginata
Fagonia laevis
Ferocactus wislizeni
"ReDir" Fouquieria splendens (Ocotillo)
Geraea canescens
Hibiscus denudatus
Hyptis emoryi
Krameria grayi
Larrea tridentata
Lupinus arizonicus
Nicotiana obtusifolia
Olneya tesota
Opuntia acanthocarpa
- (syn: Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa
Opuntia basilaris
Parkinsonia florida — (Blue Paloverde)
Peucephyllum schottii
Phacelia spp. — (Scorpionweed)
- Phacelia crenulata subsp.
Prosopis ssp. — (Mesquite)
Psyllium ssp.
Psorothamnus spinosus
Sphaeralcea ambigua

Perennials

Trees, perennials: Genus-species-(binomials)

Annuals

Common name

Arizona Lupine
California Fagonbush
'Chicura
Common Fiddleneck
Desert Sunflower
Desert Tobacco
Desert trumpet
Fremont's pincushion
Narrow-leaved Popcorn Flower
Plantago — (Psyllium ssp.)
Rattlesnake Weed
Rigid Spiny Herb
Scorpionweed — (Phacelia spp.)
- Notch-leaved Phacelia
Scruffy Prairie Clover
White-bract Stick Leaf
- White-bract Blazing Star

Genus-species

Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia
Chaenactis fremontii
Chorizanthe rigida
Cryptantha angustifolia
Dalea albiflora
"ReDir" Eriogonum ssp.
- Eriogonum inflatum — (Desert trumpet)
"ReDir" Euphorbia albomarginata
Fagonia laevis
Geraea canescens
Lupinus arizonicus
Mentzelia involucrata
Nicotiana obtusifolia
Phacelia spp. — (Scorpionweed)
- Phacelia crenulata subsp.
Psyllium ssp.

References

^ Colorado DesertLandforms, Picacho Mountains.,[1][2]
^ Picacho SRA, Beavertail Cactus
^ Peucephyllum schottii, Sonoran Desert Plants, packrat middens, Whipple Mountains, 11,500 bp; Picacho Peak, 11,000 bp; p 315-317.
^ Bur. of Land Management, Little Picacho Wilderness. (photo gallery) Archived 2010-07-10 at the Wayback Machine
^ Winter 2005-2006, Indian Pass Wilderness & Little Picacho; [3]
^ 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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chocolate Mountains.

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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