Superstition Mtns Road Trip #2a: Part 3
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Superstition Mountains (2)
© W.P. Armstrong 28 January 2013

View of Superstitions from summit of trail to Silly Mountain.

Views of Superstitions from summit of trail to Silly Mountain.

Snow On The Superstitions (20 February 2012)

Green Carpet On Alluvial Slopes Is Not Grass

The green carpet is a dense, homogeneous population of Pectocarya recurvata (Boraginaceae).

Pectocarya recurvata: Each of the 4 one-seeded nutlets is conspicuously recurved (arched).

Moon Over The Superstitions

Superstition Sunsets

Nearby Canyon Lake

Steep walls of welded tuff (fused volcanic ash) above Canyon Lake are
covered with the crustose rock lichen (probably Acarospora socialis).

Arizona spike-moss (Selaginella arizonica) on welded tuff above Canyon Lake.