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In phytogeography, concerned with the geographic distribution of plant species, floristic provinces are used. The Sierra Nevada are primarily within the California Floristic Province, with the Rocky Mountain Floristic Province to the north, the Great Basin Floristic Province to the east, and Sonoran Floristic Province to the south.
A small group [citation needed] of Sierra Nevada alpine plants can found around the world in northern latitudes, which is called (circumboreal). [4]: 225 An example is bush cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa), [4]: 225 which ranges throughout arctic regions of Alaska, Labrador, and the high mountains of Eurasia. [5]: 187 [9]
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The lowest-elevation biotic zone in the Sierra Nevada is found along the boundary with the Central Valley. [5] This zone, stretching in elevation from 500 to 3,500 feet (150 to 1,070 m), is the foothill woodland zone, an area that is hot and dry in the summer with very little or no snow in the winter. [5]
Veratrum californicum (California corn lily, white or California false hellebore) is an extremely poisonous plant [1] native to western North America, including the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains, as far north as Washington and as far south as Durango; depending on latitude, it grows from near sea level to as high as 11,000 feet.
Native wildflower blazing star (Mentzelia lindleyi) Gentiana algida in the Sierra Nevada. California native plants are plants that existed in California prior to the arrival of European explorers and colonists in the late 18th century. [1] California includes parts of at least three phytochoria.
A botanist gently strokes the pollen of endangered wildflowers with a paintbrush as she tries to reenact nature inside a small greenhouse in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada. It's part of a lithium ...
The Sierra Nevada are home to half of the vascular plant species of California, with 400 species that are endemic to the region. [16] Like many mountain ranges, the plant communities of the Sierra group into biotic zones by altitude, because of the increasingly harsh climate as elevation increases. [19]
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