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Hydrophyllum tenuipes, the Pacific waterleaf, is an herbaceous perennial plant native to North America. It is found in western North America from British Columbia to northern California . Ecology
California's coastal salt marsh is a wetland plant community that occurs sporadically along the Pacific Coast from Humboldt Bay to San Diego. This salt marsh type is found in bays, harbors, inlets, and other protected areas subject to tidal flooding .
Smilax californica, the California greenbriar, [2] is a common woody vine native to northern California and southwestern Oregon in the western United States. [3] [4] The leaves are dull green, petioled, alternate, and circular to heart-shaped. They are generally 5–10 cm long. [5] The stems are round, green and have sharp spines. [5] [6]
Vitis californica, with common names California wild grape, Northern California grape, and Pacific grape, [1] is a wild grape species widespread across much of California as well as southwestern Oregon. [2] [3] [4] The California wild grape grows in canyons, alongside springs, streams.
Of California's total plant population, 2,153 species, subspecies, and varieties are endemic and native to California alone, according to the 1993 Jepson Manual study. [4] This botanical diversity stems not only from the size of the state, but also its diverse topographies , climates, and soils (e.g. serpentine outcrops ).
The deserts in California receive between 2 and 10 inches (51 and 254 mm) of rain per year. [6] Plants in these deserts are brush and scrub, adapted to the low rainfall. Common plant species include creosote bush, blackbrush, greasewood, saltbush, big sagebrush, low sagebrush, and shadscale. [6]
It encompasses over 7,000 acres (28 km 2) of riparian woodlands, wetlands and grasslands that host a diversity of wildlife native to California's Central Valley. The refuge is situated where three major rivers, the San Joaquin , Tuolumne and Stanislaus Rivers , join providing key wildlife corridor habitat.
The Cosumnes River Preserve is a nature preserve of over 51,000 acres (210 km 2) located 20 miles (30 km) south of Sacramento, in the US state of California.The preserve protects a Central Valley remnant that once contained one of the largest expanses of oak tree savanna, riparian oak forest and wetland habitat in North America. [1]