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2. California coastal salt marsh - Wikipedia

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   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 .

3. California coastal sage and chaparral - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Tijuana River Estuary - Wikipedia

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   The Tijuana River Estuary is an intertidal coastal wetland at the mouth of the Tijuana River in San Diego County, California, United States, bordering Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. It is the location of Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve , Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge , Border Field State Park , and the Tijuana ...

5. San Elijo Lagoon - Wikipedia

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   Non-native plants were introduced that later proved highly invasive. Between 1880 and 1940, dikes and levees were built that allowed duck hunting, salt harvesting, and sewage settling ponds. The most permanent changes were the construction of the Santa Fe Railroad 's Surf Line in 1887, Pacific Coast Highway 101 in 1891, and Interstate 5 in 1965.

6. 57 California native plants that survived the Ice Age to live ...

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   Southern California black walnut (Juglans californica) California sycamore (Platanus racemosa) Box elder (Acer negundo) Willow (Salix sp.) Grasses/rushes . Sedge (Carex sp.) Spikerush (Eleocharis sp.)

7. Ecology of California - Wikipedia

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   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]

8. California has the highest concentration of plants at risk of ...

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   California is in one of the world’s 36 biodiversity hot spots and is home to more than 6,000 types of native plants, including hundreds of wildflower species. Only a few other places on Earth ...

9. Gardena Willows Wetland Preserve - Wikipedia

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   The Gardena Willows Wetland Preserve occupies 13.6 acres (55,000 m 2) of land owned by the City of Gardena, in Los Angeles County, California.The preserve is the last intact remnant of the former Dominguez Slough, an important vernal marsh and riparian forest with riparian zones that once covered as much as 400 acres (1,600,000 m 2) of this area, known as the South Bay region.