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The Santa Monica Mountains, one of the Transverse Ranges located in Southern California, are in the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of the California Floristic Province. This ecoregion has two predominant ecosystems , with three primary plant communities :
The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy was established by the California State Legislature in 1980. Since that time, it has helped to preserve over 72,000 acres of parkland in both wilderness and urban settings, and improved more than 114 public recreational facilities throughout Southern California.
Dudleya cymosa. subsp. ovatifolia - (Santa Monica Mountains dudleya) Dudleya cymosa subsp. paniculata (Jeps.) K.M. Nakai - (Diablo range dudleya) Dudleya cymosa subsp. pumila (Rose) K.M. Nakai - (Transverse ranges liveforever) The subspecies marcescens [6] and ovatifolia [7] are federally listed as threatened species of the United States.
Paul Edelman, deputy director of natural resources and planning at the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, described the ordinance as a compromise between the competing interests of homeowners ...
Peter H. Raven and Henry J. Thompson in their 1966 "Flora of the Santa Monica Mountains" placed this population as Dudleya farinosa, which is closely related to D. caespitosa. Their primary motive to place it as D. farinosa was probably because of the paler yellow flowers, caespitose habit and diploid chromosome number, which they believed fit ...
The Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve is a large open space nature preserve owned and operated by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy spanning nearly 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) in the Simi Hills of western Los Angeles County and eastern Ventura County.
Snow is unusual in the Santa Monica Mountains, since they are not as high as the nearby San Gabriel Mountains. The lower slopes of the range average between 15 and 20 inches (380 and 510 mm) of rain per year, while the higher slopes of the central and western Santa Monica Mountains average 22 to 27 inches (560 to 690 mm) of rain per year.
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