This is a list of Muggins Mountain Wilderness flora. The Muggins Wilderness covers about 15-20 percent of the Muggins Mountains, (of southwest Arizona's, northwest Sonoran Desert), 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, 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 Mountain Wilderness is excessively arid, especially as summer progresses, and the wilderness is also a sun-drenched southwesterly facing region.
Perennials
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Annuals
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The three washes
Wash 1: Twin Tanks Wash
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. The main drainage of Muggins Wash which drains from the north-northwest contains areas of the Peucephyllum, the desert fir. This occurs just north of the split to the major northeast drainage of Muggins Wash, which is to the east of Muggins Peak.
Wash 3: Morgan Wash
On ridges, the headwater sub, sub-washes between Muggins Wash to northwest, some special plants are known:
- Hairy milkweed, Funastrum hirtellum
See also
References
- ^ Peucephyllum schottii, Sonoran Desert Plants, packrat middens, Whipple Mountains, 11,500 ybp; Picacho Peak, 11,000 ybp; p 315-317.
- 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.
- Warren, Scott S. Exploring Arizona's Wild Areas. Mountaineers Books, 1996, 2nd Ed 2002. (softcover, ISBN 978-0-89886-774-9).
- Reference to the common plants — (a short list-(perennials)-(p 265): Muggins Mountains Wilderness: Seasons, Plants and Wildlife: "ocotillo, creosote bush, brittlebush, blue paloverde, Desert Ironwood, and Smoketree (Psorothamnus);" p. 265.
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