Plant communities of California

thumb|Chaparral in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California Chaparral ( ) is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, southern Oregon, and northern Baja California, part of the California floristic province. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild wet winters and hot dry summers) and infrequent, high-intensity crown fires. Many chaparral shrubs have hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought-deciduous, scrub community of coastal sage scrub, found often on drier, southern-facing slopes.

temperate rainforest in the Pacific Northwest

WWF Ecoregion

mountain in United States of America

ecoregion in California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico

Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregion in Mexico and the United States

Protected area of Inyo National Forest, California

floristic region in North America