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Here are a few pictures of the Plant Communities of California.

About a third of all the plant species that grow in the United States grow in California.
We've managed to grow about 1200 of those. Here are some pictures of the diverse plant communities that occur in California. If you want to donate better ones, we'd love some of them.
An alkaline sink plant community out by Bakersfield. I think there is a dairy on it now. - grid24_12
Alpine fell fields wildflowers. - grid24_12
This is an area of the Sierras just below 9000 ft. that you have to ask, is it a meadow or Alpine Fell Field? - grid24_12
A Bristle cone pine forest - grid24_12
If the weeds are not there, California is amazing! When an annual native plant is done flowering it almost disappears and is nearly fire proof. Large areas of California used to look like this in spring. Can you imagine what inner Los Angeles could look like if it was still natural? - grid24_12
Openings in the Central Oak woodland or Foothill woodland plant community.used to look like this.
A broad view of central oak woodland. The wildflowers have been replaced with weedy grasses. - grid24_12
Weeds have replaced the wildflowers in most of California's Central Oak Woodland.
This is what is left of the oak woodland between Keene and Arvin. - grid24_12
Shooting Stars making a flower show in a central oak woodland. - grid24_12
Chaparral in the Southern Sierras. - grid24_12
Sierran Chaparral is a form of the chaparral plant community.
Down by the Mexican border right before the Border Patrol ran the dog through the car. - grid24_12
Chaparral
South of Phelan where chaparral and Joshua Tree plant communities come together. - grid24_12
Chaparral, Joshua Tree and Juniper Woodland.
A path through a closed pine forest. - grid24_12
Closed Cone pine forest understory. - grid24_12
seaside daisy, San Simeon. Some of these areas are hard to define. Is this coastal strand, coastal sage scrub or coastal prairie? Probably coastal prairie. - grid24_12
A coastal hillside of sticky monkey flower in a coastal sage scrub plant community. - grid24_12
Much of the populated areas of Southern California used to look like this. NOT BROWN! Coastal Sage Scrub in early summer.
Black Sage flowers can be blue or white. Sometimes the white ones are blue on cold years. Here they are along a coastal trail in coastal sage scrub. - grid24_12
A trail through coastal sage scrub. Plants include Lupinus chamisonis, Coyote Bush, Cliff Buckwheat, Deerweed, Sticky Monkey flower, and Giant Rye. - grid24_12
Coastal Salt Marsh in Baywood-Morro Bay - grid24_12
Coastal Salt Marsh or California's Coastal Salt marsh community
Coastal strand with Sand Verbena - grid24_12
Coastal Strand .
Cliff Buckwheat, California Sage brush and some Dudleyas on a coastal Bluff. - grid24_12
The California Coastal strand plant community can be on clay or sand.
Creosote Woodland up by Red Rock Canyon - grid24_12
If it wasn't so HOT, Creosote Bush Scrub is a great place to live.
Creosote and Encelia out in the Creosote plant community. - grid24_12
Creosote woodland Barstow - grid24_12
A description and list of plants that occur in the desert plant community Creosote scrub.
Douglas fir forest - grid24_12
Douglas Fir Forest is mostly a ways from us.California Douglas Fir Plant Community and its plants.
A pond or fresh water marsh in Northern California infected with water hyacinth. - grid24_12
California freshwater marsh or Freshwater Marsh plants
Sage Brush scrub. - grid24_12
California Great Basin Sagebrush Plant Community.
Joshua trees and Encelia Actonii along the eastern side of the Southern Sierras - grid24_12
California Joshua Tree Plant Community has high summer temperatures and a great deal of wildlife.
Joshua Tree Woodland with cottonthorn and Interior Buckwheat - grid24_12
Joshua Tree Woodland
Salvia dorrii, purple desert sage with a sea of butterflies. To bad the Joshua Trees will not support a hammock. - grid24_12
Lundy canyon with Sierra snow melt washing thorough Columbine, Aquilegia formosa, Monkey flower, Pinus contorta ssp. murrayana, lodgepole pine - grid24_12
California’s lodgepole plant community
Penstemon heterodoxus at 7400 ft. under lodgepole and ponderosa pine - grid24_12
Lodgepole Forest plants.
Lodgepole pine trees, I think, at 7500 ft. in the Sierra - grid24_12
Mixed evergreen forest - grid24_12
Here is a picture from with a mixed evergreen forest. Bay, Madrone, Big Leaf Maple, Coast Live Oak, a few Pines, and few Sargent Cypress. - grid24_12
A rather dry mountain meadow in the Southern Sierras - grid24_12
Mountain Meadow
Looking across a mountain meadow to Red Fir trees. Helenium bigelovii, Bigelows Sneezeweed in for ground. - grid24_12
California has some wonderful mountain meadow plant communities full of wildflowers and butterflies.
An old photo of Northern coastal scrub. - grid24_12
Where the Great basin and Northern Juniper Woodland come together. - grid24_12
Pinyon Juniper Woodland south eastern Sierras - grid24_12
California Pinyon-Juniper Woodland with a Pinus monophylla - grid24_12
California is beautiful, the paintbrush plants add a little color to the Pinyon Juniper woodland.The green is a Ephedra, the gray is a Big basin Sage. - grid24_12
The pinyon juniper woodland plant community in California.
Abies magnifica, Red Fir in the southern Sierras - grid24_12
The California Red Fir Community and it's plants.
California redwood forest floor - grid24_12
Coastal redwood forest with the remains of logging from decades ago that has created an opening in California's Coastal Redwood forest filled with Western Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum), and Elderberry. Please do not steal our photos! - grid24_12
coastal redwood forest inderstory - grid24_12
Redwood Forest and its native plants.
The Salinas River at Las Pilitas Rd. The riparian area is all within the photo. - grid24_12
The top of Kaweah River. Riparian plant communities can be only a few feet wide in the upper Sierras. - grid24_12
Here is a Riparian area in the desert mountains. - grid24_12
California riparian areas and its plants are quite different than most of California.
Shadscale scrub plant community with Goldfields and Tidy tips between the Atriplex. - grid24_12
The Shadscale plant community probably never burned before Europeans brought weeds. Now when it burns there's not much left as this picture shows. A wasteland. - grid24_12
The California Shadscale Scrub Plant community has mostly Atriplex and wildflowers. If it burns, weeds replace the natives.
One of the edges of the sagebrush community. - grid24_12
California Sagebrush Plant Communityand its plants
A mix of Pinus balfouriana, Pinnus contorta murrayana, Pinus monticola and Juniperus occidentalis. God knows which pine is which. - grid24_12
Sub-alpine forest in the Southern Sierra - grid24_12
Yosemite Pines of a yellow pine forest - grid24_12
A Ponderosa Pine in a Sierra Yellow Pine Forest. - grid24_12
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