The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of southwestern Oregon, northern, central, and southern California and northwestern Baja California (Mexico), located on the west coast of North America. It is an ecoregion of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome, and part of the Nearctic realm.
The Tehachapi Mountains are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in the Western United States. The range extends for approximately 40 miles (64 km) in southern Kern County and northwestern Los Angeles County and form part of the boundary between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.
Nolina cismontana, the chaparral beargrass, chaparral nolina, California beargrass, Peninsular beargrass, or peninsular nolina, is a rare species of flowering plant of the Peninsular and Transverse Ranges in California. It is endemic to only four counties in Southern California: Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Ventura Counties. There are perhaps 15 to 17 occurrences in existence, with a total population estimated between 10,000 and 20,000.
Lepechinia fragrans is a flowering herbaceous shrub known by the common names island pitchersage and fragrant pitchersage. It is a member of the Lamiaceae, or mint family, but like other Lepechinia, the flowers are borne in racemes instead of in mintlike whorls.
Lepechinia is a genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It includes several species of plants known commonly as pitchersages. Plants of this genus can be found in Central and South America, Mexico, California, Hispaniola, and Hawaii, although the species in Hawaii is probably a human introduction. Many of them bear attractive pitcher-shaped flowers, often in shades of purple. The genus was named for the Russian botanist Ivan Ivanovich Lepechin. Recently, the two monotypic genera Chaunostoma and Neoeplingia were shown to be part of Lepechinia.
- Lepechinia anomalaEpling - southern Brazil
- Lepechinia bellaEpling - Bolivia
- Lepechinia betonicaefolia(Lam.) Epling - Colombia, Ecuador
- Lepechinia bullata (Kunth) Epling - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
- Lepechinia calycina(Benth.) Epling ex Munz – pitcher sage, woodbalm - California
- Lepechinia cardiophyllaEpling – Santa Ana pitcher sage - southern California, Baja California
- Lepechinia caulescens(Ortega) Epling - Mexico, Guatemala
- Lepechinia chamaedryoides(Balb.) Epling - Chile
- Lepechinia cocuyensisJ.R.I.Wood - Colombia
- Lepechinia codonEpling - Peru
- Lepechinia conferta(Benth.) Epling - Colombia, Venezuela
- Lepechinia dioicaJ.A.Hart - Ecuador
- Lepechinia flammeaMart.Gord. & Lozada-Pérez - Guerrero
- Lepechinia floribunda(Benth.) Epling - Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- Lepechinia fragrans(Greene) Epling – island pitcher sage, fragrant pitcher sage - southern California including offshore Channel Islands
- Lepechinia ganderiEpling – San Diego pitcher sage - southern California, Baja California
- Lepechinia glomerataEpling - Jalisco
- Lepechinia hastata(A.Gray) Epling – pakata - Baja California and Baja California Sur, including Revillagigedo Islands; naturalized in Hawaii
- Lepechinia heteromorpha (Briq.) Epling - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
- Lepechinia lamiifolia(Benth.) Epling - Ecuador, Peru
- Lepechinia lancifolia(Rusby) Epling - Bolivia
- Lepechinia leucophylloides(Ramamoorthy, Hiriart & Medrano) B.T.Drew, Cacho & Sytsma - Hidalgo
- Lepechinia maricaEpling & Mathias - Peru
- Lepechinia mecistandra(Donn.Sm.) H.K.Moon - Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador
- Lepechinia mexicana(S.Schauer) Epling - central + northeastern Mexico
- Lepechinia meyenii(Walp.) Epling - Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- Lepechinia mollis(Epling) Epling - Peru
- Lepechinia mutica(Benth.) Epling - Ecuador
- Lepechinia nelsonii(Fernald) Epling - central + southern Mexico
- Lepechinia paniculata(Kunth) Epling - Ecuador
- Lepechinia radula (Benth.) Epling - Ecuador, Peru
- Lepechinia rossiiS.Boyd & Mistretta – Ross' pitcher sage - southern California
- Lepechinia rufocampiiEpling & Mathias - Ecuador
- Lepechinia salviae(Lindl.) Epling - Chile
- Lepechinia salviifolia(Kunth) Epling - Colombia, Venezuela
- Lepechinia schiedeana(Schltdl.) Vatke - Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
- Lepechinia scobinaEpling - Peru
- Lepechinia speciosa(A.St.-Hil. ex Benth.) Epling - southern Brazil
- Lepechinia tomentosa(Benth.) Epling - Peru
- Lepechinia urbani (Briq.) Epling - Hispaniola
- Lepechinia velutinaJ.R.I.Wood - Colombia
- Lepechinia vesiculosa(Benth.) Epling - Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- Lepechinia vulcanicolaJ.R.I.Wood - Colombia
- Lepechinia yecoranaHenrickson, Fishbein & T.Van Devender - Sonora
Arctostaphylos glandulosa, with the common name Eastwood's manzanita, is a species of manzanita.
Lepechinia ganderi is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name San Diego pitcher sage. It is known from only a few populations in northern Baja California and southern San Diego County, California, where it grows in the chaparral of the Peninsular Ranges.
Chorizanthe parryi is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family known by the common name Parry's spineflower and San Bernardino spineflower.
Arctostaphylos obispoensis is a species of manzanita, known by the common names bishop manzanita and serpentine manzanita, endemic to California.
Astragalus brauntonii is a rare species of milkvetch known by the common name Braunton's milkvetch. It is endemic to California, where it is known from fewer than 20 extant occurrences in the hills and mountains surrounding the Los Angeles Basin in Southern California. This is a federally listed endangered species in the United States.
Calochortus palmeri is a species of flowering plant in the lily family known by the common names Palmer's mariposa lily and strangling mariposa.
Malacothamnus davidsonii, also known by the common names Davidson's bushmallow and Davidson's bush mallow, is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family.
Monardella hypoleuca is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, known by the common names thickleaf monardella and white leaf monardella.
Phacelia davidsonii is a species of phacelia known by the English name Davidson's phacelia named by Asa Gray for the discoverer of this annual plant, Anstruther Davidson, a Scottish naturalist who emigrated from Scotland to Los Angeles, California, in the late nineteenth century. This native forb occurs in southern California and southern Nevada, where it grows in mountains and foothills in chaparral and woodland habitats. In California, this herb is found in the Southern Sierra Nevada, Transverse Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges.
The California montane chaparral and woodlands is an ecoregion defined by the World Wildlife Fund, spanning 7,900 square miles (20,000 km2) of mountains in the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and Coast Ranges of southern and central California. The ecoregion is part of the larger California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion, and belongs to the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome.
Sidalcea hickmanii is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known generally by the common name chaparral checkerbloom.
Navarretia ojaiensis is a rare species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Ojai navarretia.
Deinandra minthornii — — is a rare California species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Santa Susana tarplant, or Santa Susana tarweed. It is an endangered species, listed as a Threatened species by the California Department of Fish and Game, as Imperiled under the California Endangered Species Act—CESA, and on the California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California.
Galium jepsonii, with the common name Jepson's bedstraw, is a rare flowering plant species in the Rubiaceae — Madder family.
