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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 .
The region has been heavily affected by grazing, logging, dams, and water diversions, intensive agriculture and urbanization, as well as competition by numerous introduced or exotic plant and animal species. Some unique plant communities, like southern California's Coastal Sage Scrub, have
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.
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]
Sycamore Alluvial Woodland is a rare open woodland plant community, or vegetation type, dominated by California sycamore Platanus racemosa, existing only in small parts of California. [ 1 ] : 115 It exists only in small areas of California in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada range and the California Coastal Range .
The land is in good condition, with ponds of duckweed and other wetland plants that harbor several pond turtles. [ 12 ] There were two land acquisitions in 2009: On August 28, the 26-acre (110,000 m 2 ) Vig property was purchased by Audubon, [ 9 ] and November 20, the 80-acre (320,000 m 2 ) Pond Ranch sale closed a gap between Fay Ranch Road ...
Massive wildfires continue to spread in the Los Angeles area amid extreme winds, including the Palisades Fire, which has exploded to nearly 20,000 acres, and the Eaton Fire, which has scorched ...
The Endemic flora of the State of California — native plants found within its borders, and nowhere else in nature.; The largest area of the state is in the Mediterranean climate floristic region, within the California Floristic Province — with the greatest number of endemic plants in North America.