Miscellaneous Facts
- Contrary to popular perception, Mount Lemmon is not the highest point in the Tucson area. Mount Wrightson in the nearby Santa Rita Mountains has an elevation of 9,453 feet (2,881 m).
- It is the type locality of a species of Noctuidae or owlet moths (see List of butterflies and moths of Arizona)
- Mount Lemmon is named after Sara Lemmon, a plant collector and the first white woman to ascend the peak in the 1870s. The plants she collected on the way were shipped to Asa Gray at Harvard.
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