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The Santa Monica Mountains, one of the Transverse Ranges located in Southern California, are in the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of the California Floristic Province. This ecoregion has two predominant ecosystems , with three primary plant communities :
Snow is unusual in the Santa Monica Mountains, since they are not as high as the nearby San Gabriel Mountains. The lower slopes of the range average between 15 and 20 inches (380 and 510 mm) of rain per year, while the higher slopes of the central and western Santa Monica Mountains average 22 to 27 inches (560 to 690 mm) of rain per year.
Astragalus brauntonii was described by Samuel Bonsall Parish in the Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences in 1903. It was first discovered by Herman Edward Hasse in 1899, who collected it in "sterile clay soil" in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains — one of the Transverse Ranges, in southern California. Habitats spanning from near Downtown Los Angeles northwest through eastern Ventura County , in Southern California .
Natural history of the Transverse Ranges — located in Southern California. The native flora-plants of the Transverse ... List of flora of the Santa Monica Mountains *
Dudleya cymosa. subsp. ovatifolia - (Santa Monica Mountains dudleya) Dudleya cymosa subsp. paniculata (Jeps.) K.M. Nakai - (Diablo range dudleya) Dudleya cymosa subsp. pumila (Rose) K.M. Nakai - (Transverse ranges liveforever) The subspecies marcescens [6] and ovatifolia [7] are federally listed as threatened species of the United States.
The goldspotted oak borer is just 14 miles from the Santa Monica Mountains' 600,000 oak trees and threatens to devastate forests throughout California, harming wildlife and increasing fire risks.
Lepechinia fragrans is endemic to California.It is found in open areas in chaparral, in dry ravines, on rocky slopes and ridgetops, between 60 and 1100 meters.It is known in the Trifuno Pass area of the Santa Monica Mountains and in the San Gabriel Mountains, as well as the north Channel Islands.