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A guide to the plant communities of California.

Desert, Seaside, Grassland and Marsh Communities of California

Use rock mulch or a boulder for your mulch.
  • Alkali Sink
  • Alpine Fell-Fields
  • Coastal Prairie
  • Coastal Salt Marsh
  • Coastal Strand
  • Creosote Bush Scrub
  • Freshwater Marsh
  • Great Basin Sagebrush
  • Joshua Tree Woodland
  • Mountain Meadow
  • Northern Juniper Woodland
  • Sagebrush Scrub
  • Shadscale Scrub
  • Valley Grassland
In places like Malibu there are desert plants mixed with coastal bluff plants. Bladderpod at the seashore, weird.

Woodlands and Scrublands of California

Boulders near each plant and mulch between plants is best, but just mulch is ok.

  • Bristle-cone Pine
  • Chaparral
  • Central (Foothill) Oak Woodland
  • Coast Redwood Forest
  • Coastal Sage Scrub
  • Mixed-evergreen Forest
  • Northern Coastal Scrub
  • Northern Oak Woodland
  • Pinyon-Juniper Woodland
  • Riparian rivers and creeks
  • Southern Oak Woodland
Chaparral is represented in most of the populated coastal communities.

Coniferous Forests of California

1-3" redwood, cedar or pine needle mulch is required by these plants!

  • Closed-cone Pine Forest
  • Coastal Coniferous Forest
  • Douglas-Fir Forest
  • Lodgepole Pine Forest
  • Red Fir Forest
  • Subalpine Forest
  • Yellow Pine Forest
California forests are mostly at higher elevations or in Northern California.
A unwatered coastal bluff in June. The Yellow is Eriophyllum staechadifolium artemisiaefolium. - grid24_12
 Encelia farinosa Common Names: Brittlebush, Goldenhills, Incienso growing in the desert hills around Barstow. - grid24_12
The edge of a chaparral woodland, home on the range - grid24_12
Coniferous forest in the Sierras. That sure looks like a redwood on the right. - grid24_12
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California native plants have many diverse communities to live in.
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