Muggins Mountains Wilderness flora

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This is a list of Muggins Mountains Wilderness flora. The Muggins Wilderness covers about 15-20 percent of the Muggins Mountains, (of the southwest Sonoran Desert of Arizona), and is on the southwest of the triangular mountain region; the southwest mountain flank is block faulted and parallels the northwest-southeast Dome Valley and the northeast flank of the northeast end of the Gila Mountains (Yuma County), also northwest-southeast aligned.

Three washes drain the wilderness area southwestwards, and there are two major interior mountain peaks, Muggins Peak, at 1,424 feet (434 m), and Klothos Temple, at 1,666 feet (508 m). The Muggins Mountains Wilderness is excessively arid, especially as summer progresses, and the wilderness is also a sun-drenched southwesterly facing region.

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Contents 1 Perennials 1.1 Perennials: Common name 1.2 Perennials: Genus-species-(binomials) 2 Annuals 2.1 Common name 2.2 Genus-species 3 The 3 washes 3.1 Wash 1: Twin Tanks Wash 3.2 Wash 2: Muggins Wash 3.3 Wash 3: Morgan Wash 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Perennials

[edit] Perennials: Common name

Anderson Thornbush Bebbia -- Chuckwalla's Delight Brittlebush Catclaw Acacia Creosote bush Desert Globemallow Desert Holly also called Saltbush-(found with some Mesquite ssp-Muggins Wash) Desert Ironwood Desert Lavender

Hairy milkweed Rush Milkweed Desert Milkweed, Leafless Milkweed Ocotillo Blue Palo Verde Saguaro Scruffy Prairie Clover Smoketree (Psorothamnus) Smokethorn White Ratany

[edit] Perennials: Genus-species-(binomials)

Acacia greggii Asclepias subulata Atriplex hymenelytra–Saltbush Bebbia juncea "ReDir" Carnegiea gigantea Cercidium floridum Dalea albiflora Encelia farinosa "ReDir" Fouquieria splendens

Hyptis emoryi Krameria grayi Larrea tridentata Lycium andersonii Olneya tesota Psorothamnus spinosus Sarcostemma hirtellum Sphaeralcea ambigua

[edit] Annuals

[edit] Common name

Arizona Lupine California Fagonbush Canyon Ragweed Chicura Desert Sunflower Desert Tobacco Desert trumpet Fremont's pincushion

Mojave Desert Star Narrow-leaved Popcorn Flower Rattlesnake Weed-No 1 Rigid Spiny Herb Scorpionweed Notch-leaved Phacelia White-bract Stick Leaf White-bract Blazing Star White tackstem

[edit] Genus-species

Ambrosia ambrosioides Calycoseris wrightii Chaenactis fremontii Chorizanthe rigida Cryptantha angustifolia "ReDir" Eriogonum spp Desert trumpet ReDir Euphorbia albomarginata

Fagonia laevis Geraea canescens Lupinus arizonicus Mentzelia involucrata Monoptilon bellioides Nicotiana obtusifolia (Phacelia crenulata spp) Scorpionweed

[edit] The 3 washes

[edit] Wash 1: Twin Tanks Wash

[edit] Wash 2: Muggins Wash

The "saltbush", Atriplex hymenelytra, the Desert holly is found from the 1/2 to 7/8 point up Muggins Wash and side washes to the northeast-(because of the geology-). Mesquite is in the vicinity, but very less common.

[edit] Wash 3: Morgan Wash

On ridges, the headwater sub, sub-washes between Muggins Wash to northwest, some special plants are known:

• Hairy Milkweed, the Sarcostemma hirtellum milkweed

[edit] See also

• Muggins Mountains
• Muggins Mountains Wilderness

[edit] References

• Warren, Scott S. Exploring Arizona's Wild Areas. Mountaineers Books, 1996, 2nd Ed 2002. (softcover, ISBN 978-0-89886774-9).
  • Reference to the common plants -(a short list-(perennials))-(p 265): Muggins Mountains Wilderness: Seasons, Plants and Wildlife: "ocotillo, creosote bush, brittlebush, paloverde, 'Desert ironwood', 'Smoketree (Psorothamnus)';" p.265.