Coastal sage scrub is a low scrubland plant community found in the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of California and northern Baja California. It is characterized by low-growing aromatic, and drought-dediduous shrubs adapted to the semi-arid Mediterranean climate of the coastal lowlands. Scrubland is an uncultivated region covered with scrub vegetation. ... The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of central and southern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California (Mexico), located on the west coast of North America. ... Ecoregions are defined by World Wildlife Fund as relatively large units of land or water containing a distinct assemblage of natural communities and species, with boundaries that approximate the original extent of natural communities prior to major land-use change. Terrestrial ecoregions are land ecoregions, as distinct from freshwater ecoregions... State nickname: The Golden State Official languages English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 4. ... Baja California is the northernmost state of Mexico; it is mostly located on the northern half of the Baja California peninsula. ... A Mediterranean climate is one that resembles those of the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea. ...

Coastal sage scrublands are mostly found in the coastal lowlands of Southern California, from Santa Barbara County in the north, through the Oxnard Plain of Ventura County, the Los Angeles Basin, most of Orange County, parts of Riverside County, coastal San Diego County, and the northwestern corner of Mexico's Baja California state, including the region around Tijuana and Ensenada. Southern California Downtown Los Angeles Skyline Southern California, sometimes abbreviated SoCal, is an informal name for the megalopolis that is the southern one-third of the state of California. ... Santa Barbara County is a county located on the Pacific coast of Southern California, in the state of California, just west of Ventura County. ... Ventura County is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area, located on Californias Pacific coast. ... The Los Angeles Basin is the coastal sediment-filled plain located between the peninsular and transverse ranges in southern California in the United States containing the central part of the city of Los Angeles. ... Orange County is the name of several counties in the United States of America: Orange County, California: probably named for the city of Orange, California, which in turn may have been named after the orange groves that used to exist there. ... Riverside County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, stretching from Orange County to the Colorado River, which is the border with Arizona. ... San Diego County is a county located on the Pacific Ocean in the far southwest of California, along the border with Mexico. ... Tijuana is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and the seat of the municipality of the same name. ... The port of Ensenada Ensenada is a city in the state of Baja California, Mexico. ...

Characteristic plants include California Sagebrush (Artemisia californica), Black Sage (Salvia mellifera), White Sage (Salvia apiana), California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum), Golden Yarrow (Eriophyllum confertifolium), with the larger shrubs Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia) and Lemonade Berry (Rhus integrifolia), along with other shrubs and herbaceous plants, grasses, cacti and succulents. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Black Sage is small evergreen shrub of genus Salvia (Sage) with white, to light blue flowers, Californian native. ... Binomial name Salvia apiana Jepson White sage (Salvia apiana), also known as Sacred sage, is an evergreen perennial shrub of the genus Salvia, the sages. ... Species over 250, see text The Wild Buckwheats form the genus Eriogonum in the flowering plant family Polygonaceae. ... Binomial name Heteromeles arbutifolia (Lindl. ... Species About 250 species; see text Rhus is a genus of woody shrubs and trees, all with the leaves spirally arranged and pinnately compound (some species are trifoliate). ... Subfamilies There are 7 subfamilies: Subfamily Arundinoideae Subfamily Bambusoideae Subfamily Centothecoideae Subfamily Chloridoideae Subfamily Panicoideae Subfamily Pooideae Subfamily Stipoideae The true grasses are monocotyledonous plants (Class Liliopsida) in the Family Poaceae, also known as Gramineae. ... Genera See Taxonomy of the Cactaceae A cactus (plural, cacti or cactuses) is a type of (usually) succulent plant belonging to the dicotyledonous flowering plant family, Cactaceae. ... Succulent plants, or succulents, are plants that store water in their enlarged fleshy leaves, stems, or roots. ...

The metropolitan areas of Los Angeles, San Diego, and Tijuana are located in the coastal sage scrublands, and most of the scrublands have been lost to urbanization and agriculture. World Wildlife Fund estimates that only 15% of the coastal sage scrublands remain undeveloped. The California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica), is a critically endangered bird species endemic to the coastal sage scrublands. This article is about the largest city in California. ... San Diego County in the Southwest corner of California. ... Tijuana is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and the seat of the municipality of the same name. ... Note: After losing a court case in 2002 on the use of the initials WWF, the organization previously known as the World Wrestling Federation has rebranded itself as World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE. WWF - The Conservation Organization was formerly known as World Wildlife Fund and Worldwide Fund for Nature. ... Binomial name Polioptila californica (Linnaeus,, 1766) The California Gnatcatcher is a small (4. ... Orders Many - see section below. ... In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or one of various ways of being not native (e. ...

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• California coastal sage scrub and chaparral (World Wildlife Fund)
• Coastal sage scrub (National Park Service)