Cryptantha muricata (Hook. & Arn.) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.

BOTANICAL
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Plants of Arizona
Terrestrial Ecosystems Survey, Tonto National Forest
Cryptantha muricata (Hook. & Am.) A. Nels. & J.F.
Family: Boraginaceae
Symbol: CRMU2
Common name: pointed cryptantha
Locality: Arizona, Gila County;
Tonto National Forest; Greenback Creek Quad map; Twin Buttes in Tonto
Basin, about 2 air miles north of the northern tip of Theodore Roosevelt
Reservoir, east of Tonto Creek; about 1 mile southeast along A-Cross Rd.
(also known as FR 60) after it crosses Tonto Creek. At base of the southeast
side of the buttes, N 33° 47.306’ W 111 ° 13.683' 2420 ft.,
Habitat: Sonoran Desert, open area with scattered shrubs, most cover
herbacous annuals, especially Texas stork's bill; soils - Ustertic Haplargids fine,
smectitic thermic; high clay, skeletal
Associated spp: Simmondsia chinensis, Lycium, Ziziphus obtusifolia, Opuntia
engelmannii, Cylindropuntia acanthacarpa, Parkinsonia microphylla, Prosopis
velutina, Sphaeralcea, annuals: Erodium texanum, E. cicutarium, Lupinus
sparsiflorus, Lesquerella gordonii, Plagiobothrys arizonicus, Bromus rubens,
Lotus spp., Platago spp., Eriogonum spp., Amslnckia, Cryptantha
Notes: common annual
Origin: native
Collected by: Elizabeth Makings 2011	8	April	2005
with: Pat Boness, Andrew Casillas
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