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Chaparral in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California. Chaparral (/ ˌ ʃ æ p ə ˈ r æ l, ˌ tʃ æ p-/ SHAP-ə-RAL, CHAP-) [1] is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, in southern Oregon and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico.
Ericameria brachylepis is a North American species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae known by the common names chaparral goldenbush and boundary goldenbush. [ 3 ] It is native to Arizona , southern California and northern Baja California where it is a member of the chaparral plant community.
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.
Also in the eastern Santa Rosa Mountains, in canyons with natural oases, the native California fan palm (Washingtonia filifera) is found. [5] They are also the home of a population of endangered peninsular bighorn sheep , endemic to the Peninsular Ranges and distinct from the desert bighorn sheep .
Hesperoyucca whipplei (syn. Yucca whipplei), the chaparral yucca, [2] our Lord's candle, [2] Spanish bayonet, [3] Quixote yucca [2] or foothill yucca, [4] is a species of flowering plant closely related to, and formerly usually included in, the genus Yucca. It is native to southwest communities of North America.
Chamaedorea is a genus of 107 species of palms, native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas. [2] [3] They are small palms, growing to 0.3–6 m (1 ft 0 in – 19 ft 8 in) tall with slender, cane-like stems, growing in the understory in rainforests, and often spreading by means of underground runners, forming clonal colonies.
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This roadrunner is also known as the chaparral cock, ground cuckoo, and snake killer. [5] Taxonomy and systematics.