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[6] [7] Desert chaparral is a regional ecosystem subset of the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, with some plant species from the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion. Unlike cismontane chaparral, which forms dense, impenetrable stands of plants, desert chaparral is often open, with only about 50% of the ground covered. [ 8 ]
Toxicoscordion fremontii, known as the common star lily or Frémont's deathcamas (after John C. Frémont) [3] or star zigadene, is an attractive wildflower found on grassy or woody slopes, or rocky outcrops, in many lower-lying regions of California, southwestern Oregon, and northern Baja California.
Cuscuta California var. apiculata – This variety has an ovoid to conic shaped ovary and fruit, with a pointed tip, and one seed. Cuscuta californica var. californica – This variety has a spheric to spheric-depressed shaped ovary and fruit, with 2 to 4 seeds, and does not have a papillate perianth or pedicels .
Montane chaparral and woodlands in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California. Most of the population of California and Baja California lives in these ecoregions, which includes the San Francisco Bay Area, Ventura County, the Greater Los Angeles Area, San Diego County, Tijuana, and Ensenada, Baja California.
The montane chaparral consists of a mosaic of sage scrub, chaparral, and montane species, depending on altitude. [9] The California interior chaparral and woodlands form a ring around the Central Valley , covering the hills around the Bay Area as well as the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. [ 10 ]
Collier was born on October 17, 1928, [1] in Santa Monica, California on the West Coast. [2] He worked as a geologist, a logging hand, a ranch hand, and a surveyor [3] and served in both the United States Navy and the Merchant Marine.
Greater roadrunner fossils dating from the Holocene and Pleistocene have been found in California, [6] [7] New Mexico, Texas, [8] Arizona, [9] and the Mexican state of Nuevo León. [10] The oldest known fossil comes from a cave in New Mexico, estimated at an age of 33,500 years. [ 8 ]
The California coastal sage and chaparral (Spanish: Salvia y chaparral costero de California) is a Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregion, defined by the World Wildlife Fund, located in southwestern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California . It is part of the larger California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.