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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Chaparral, Santa Monica Mountains, Simi Hills, Tehachapi Mountains, Santa Susana Mountains, San Gabriel Mountains, San Jose Hills, Santa Ynez Mountains, Puente Hills, Baldwin Hills, San Bernardino Mountains, Little San Bernardino Mountains, California mixed evergreen forest, San Rafael Mountains, Chrysolepis, San Rafael Hills, California interior chaparral and woodlands, Chalk Hills, San Emigdio Mountains, Sierran Arc, Sierra Pelona Mountains, Solomon Hills, Corallorhiza maculata, Orcuttia californica, South Hills, Navarretia fossalis, Figueroa Mountain, Palos Verdes Hills, Dominguez Hills, Lost Hills, Shandin Hills, Tejon Hills, Lompoc Hills, White Hills, Rosecrans Hills, Elkhorn Hills, Irish Hills, Eleocharis rostellata, Streptanthus bernardinus, Eagle Hills, Elk Hills, La Loma Hills, Lepechinia calycina, Crafton Hills, Layia leucopappa, Deadman Hills, Casmalia Hills, Bacon Hills, Little Signal Hills, Antelope Hills, Pleito Hills, Tehachapi slender salamander, Buena Vista Hills, Layia hieracioides, Gilia latiflora, Packera ionophylla, Navarretia jaredii, Topatopa Mountains, Mentzelia gracilenta, Astragalus filipes, Cordylanthus nevinii, Gilia angelensis, Eriogonum molestum, Cardamine breweri, Navarretia prostrata, Gilia leptantha, Cordylanthus eremicus, Pine Mountain Ridge, Independence dike swarm. Excerpt: Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U.S. state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire, having summer drought-tolerant plants with hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft leaved, drought deciduous, scrub community of Coastal sage scrub, found below the chaparral biome. Chaparral covers 5% of the stat...
