Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Chiricahua Mountains are a bio-diverse area which is composed of numerous sky islands. [14] Five of the 9 life zones [15] are found in the Chiricahua Mountains. Three hundred and seventy-five avian species have been recorded from the Chiricahua Mountains; some are largely Mexican species for which southern Arizona is the northern limits of ...
Verbena chiricahensis, commonly named Chiricahua Mountain mock vervain or Chiricahua vervain, is a species of flowering plant in the family Verbenaceae. [1] The specific name is sometimes misspelled as " chiricahuensis ".
The common name, as well as the specific name chiricahuensis, refers to the Chiricahua Mountains, AZ in which the species was first discovered. [4] Its natural habitats are temperate forests , rivers , intermittent rivers, swamps , freshwater lakes , intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes , intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater ...
Rumex orthoneurus is a species of flowering plant in the knotweed family known by the common names Chiricahua Mountain dock [1] and Blumer's dock. It is native to western North America, where it can be found in Arizona, New Mexico, and Sonora. [2] This large rhizomatous perennial herb may reach one [3] to two meters [4] in height.
The Mexican fox squirrel (Sciurus nayaritensis) is a species of tree squirrel found throughout the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico as far south as Jalisco — and northward into the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona, U.S. [4] This species, or its subspecies, is sometimes called the Nayarit, Apache, or Chiricahua fox squirrel. [4]
Apache pine (Pinus engelmannii) in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona. Species of pine (Pinus) and oak (Quercus) are the predominant trees in the ecoregion. Plant communities vary with rainfall, elevation, temperature, and soils, and species can vary between the sky island, northern, central, and southern portions of the range.
The northern west–east perimeter of the sky island region merges into the higher elevation eastern Mogollon Rim and the White Mountains of eastern Arizona (southern Anasazi region). The sky islands are the northernmost of the Madrean pine–oak woodlands, and are classified as part of the Sierra Madre Occidental pine–oak forests ecoregion ...
Within the Chiricahua Mountains reside 13 different species of hummingbirds with some more rare than others. This is a great opportunity to put your birding skills to the test. 4.