Platanus wrightii

Platanus wrightii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
Order:	Proteales
Family:	Platanaceae
Genus:	Platanus
Species:	P. wrightii
Binomial name
Platanus wrightii S.Watson
Natural range

Platanus wrightii (Arizona Sycamore, also in Spanish Álamo), is a sycamore tree native to Arizona and New Mexico with its range extending south into Sonora, and a small area of Chihuahua Mexico.

The tree is a large deciduous tree, growing up to 70 ft.

Distribution

The Arizona Sycamore is a tree of central Arizona's transition zone in the Mogollon Rim–White Mountains, and an extension of the range east into southwest New Mexico. In Arizona the range extends south towards northern Sonora. The range in southeast Arizona-northeast Sonora is a northeasterly part of the Sonoran Desert, and is at the northern region of the Sierra Madre Occidental cordillera.

Arizona Sycamore is prevalent in riparians areas of the Madrean Sky Islands, mountain sky islands in southeast Arizona, extreme southwest, bootheel region New Mexico, and northeast Sonora, (with extreme northwest Chihuahua). The range of the species is more prevalent west of the Madrean Sky Islands region, still in the central and northeast Sonoran Desert, an area around the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument at the Arizona-Sonora border, with the species range being slightly greater in Sonora in the Occidentals, or its western foothills.

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  Colorado Desert mistletoe on host tree Platanus wrightii

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  bark

References

• Little. Atlas of United States Trees, Volume 3, Minor Western Hardwoods, Little, Elbert L, 1976, US Government Printing Office. Library of Congress No. 79-653298. Map 113, Platanus wrightii.

External links

• Flora of North America; RangeMap
• Jepson Manual Treatment
• Lady Bird Johnson database, w/ gallery
• CalPhotos gallery
• NRCS: USDA Plants Profile

Canyon trees, (white bark, no leaves):

• Chiricahua mountains in winter