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All plant taxa that the State of California or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service list as being threatened species, endangered species, or rare species in California, are included in the lists. [2] [3]: 10 They are continually updated with additions, changes, and deletions.
U.S. Endangered Species List: Flora—plants Species Search at U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Electronic Code of Federal Regulations: "List of endangered species"
The flora of this ecoregion also includes tree species such as gray or foothill pine (Pinus sabiniana), scrub oak (Quercus dumosa), California buckeye (Aesculus californica), the rare Gowen cypress (Cupressus goveniana), the rare Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa), and a wealth of endemic plant species, including the extremely rare San ...
The California Floristic Province is a world biodiversity hotspot as defined by Conservation International, due to an unusually high concentration of endemic plants: approximately 8,000 plant species in the geographic region, and over 3,400 taxa limited to the CFP proper, as well as having lost over 70% of its primary vegetation. A biodiversity ...
Eriogonum kelloggii, a species of buckwheat found only on Red Mountain near Leggett; Harmonia guggolziorum, a flowering aster found in two locations near Hopland; Limnanthes bakeri, a meadowfarm plant known in only 20 locations near Willits; Pinus contorta var. bolanderi, the Mendocino shore pine tree, a variety of the more widespread lodgepole ...
Although considered endangered in the wild, Torrey pine is often planted as an ornamental tree around San Diego, coastal and inland southern California, and even the Central Valley. [24] A single tree planted in a suburb of San Diego in the 1940s or 1950s has grown tall and straight, and to a large size, 108 feet (33 m). [ 28 ]
The Santa Monica Mountains are covered by hundreds of local plant species: some are endemic or very rare, some are beautiful California native plants in situ, and some also are familiar as horticultural ornamental and native garden plants. Each season has different plants predominating the visual experience.
The region contains many species of small vertebrate, including the western fence lizard, white-eared pocket mouse, several species of kangaroo rat, and the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog. The area includes some larger predators such as the black bear , mountain lion , bobcat , coyote , ring-tailed cats , and the critically endangered ...