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Calocedrus decurrens is a large tree, typically reaching heights of 30–40 meters (100–130 ft) and a trunk diameter up to 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in). The largest known tree, located in Klamath National Forest, Siskiyou County, California, is 47.98 m (157 ft 5 in) tall with a 12 m (39 ft 4 in) circumference trunk and a 17.5 m (57 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) spread. [8]
This plant relies on wildfire for seed germination and burned plants can crown-sprout and keep growing. Animals rarely eat Artemisia californica , probably due to the presence of bitter aromatic terpenes , but it does provide good cover for smaller birds and other animals that can fit between its stems. [ 5 ]
Which Southern California native plants survived climate change and mass extinctions 13,000 years ago and still live today? La Brea Tar Pits researchers compiled a list.
California Carnivores is a plant nursery in Sebastopol, California in the United States. [1] [2] Specializing in the cultivation of carnivorous plants, CC is home to one of the largest collections of imported carnivorous plants in North America, and possibly the world, with more than 1,000 types of imported plant and dozen of varieties for sale in the retail section of the nursery.
The Santa Rosa Plateau is home to several native plant communities and habitats, including purple needlegrass prairie (Nassella pulchra), California oak woodland (Engelmann Oaks—Quercus engelmannii), montane chaparral, coastal sage scrub, and vernal pools, which are increasingly rare in urbanized Southern California.
In Baja California, it is found in the Peninsular Ranges of the Sierra de Juarez and Sierra de San Pedro Martir, along with the sky islands of the Sierra de La Asamblea and the Sierra de San Borja in the Central Desert. [10] This plant is typically found along foothills and coastal mountains, ridges, mesas, and hot, xeric sites. [5]
A Palmer oak in Jurupa Valley is estimated to be 13,000 to 18,000 years old. The plant, which looks like a sprawling, dark green shrub, is now at the center of a development battle.
Salvia mellifera (Californian black sage, also known as seel by the Mahuna [1]) is a small, highly aromatic, evergreen shrub of the genus Salvia (the sages) native to California, and Baja California, Mexico. It is common in the coastal sage scrub of Southern California and northern Baja California. [2]