The Arizona sycamore is a tree of central Arizona's
transition zone in the
Mogollon Rim–
White Mountains. The range extends into southwest
New Mexico and parts of
Sonora,
Chihuahua, and
Sinaloa in
Mexico. In Arizona the range extends south towards northern
Sonora. The range in southeast Arizona 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
riparian areas of the
Madrean Sky Islands, mountain
sky islands in southeast Arizona, extreme southwest,
Bootheel region of New Mexico and along the
San Francisco River in Western New Mexico, northeastern Sonora, and extreme northwest
Chihuahua). 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 extending in Sonora in the Occidentals, or its western foothills. Scattered reports have been made farther east in the
Sierra Madre Occidental. File:Phoradendronmacrophylla-azsyca.jpg|
Colorado Desert mistletoe on host tree
Platanus wrightii File:Platanus wrightii bark.jpg|bark ==Notes==