California montane chaparral and woodlands

California montane chaparral and woodlands

California montane chaparral and woodlands
The California montane chaparral and woodlands ecoregion covers the higher mountains of southern and central California — the Transverse, Peninsular, and Coast Ranges, including the San Bernardino, San Gabriel, San Jacinto, Santa Monica, and Santa Lucia Mountains — with disjunct blocks in northern Baja California, Mexico. Its Mediterranean climate brings hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters, with mid-summer monsoonal thunderstorms that often form over the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges. Vegetation forms an elevation mosaic: chamise, manzanita, and scrub oak chaparral and oak woodlands give way upslope to pine and mixed-conifer forest and, on the highest peaks, subalpine communities. The region is notable for harboring eight endemic conifer species, and its flagship animal is the white-eared pocket mouse.
RESOLVE 424
Nearctic
7,663 sq mi
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Type de paysage
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Région végétale
Nearctic
Empreinte de la région
7,663 sq mi
Pression sur l'habitat
Nature Could Recover (Dinerstein NNH 3)
Prévoyez des étés chauds et secs, des hivers doux et humides, et des plantes conçues pour les variations saisonnières. Ce climat favorise les arbustes adaptés à la sécheresse, les bulbes, les herbes et les plantes de bois clairs ; les conseils sur les espèces indigènes locales comptent car le feu, la perte d'habitat et l'endémisme font partie de l'histoire de la plantation.

Range & origins

Emplacement de California montane chaparral and woodlands sur la carte du monde
Repère placé à l’intérieur du polygone RESOLVE 2017 à 34.5°N, 118.5°W.
La région à travers le temps
Empreinte moderne
RESOLVE 2017 cartographie 7,663 sq mi
Cette limite est une empreinte écologique moderne pour California montane chaparral and woodlands, et non une ligne permanente sur la planète. Elle est utile pour le contexte actuel des plantes et de la faune car elle suit des schémas récurrents de végétation, de climat, de relief et de perturbations.
Pourquoi ici
Conditions de mediterranean forests, woodlands & scrub
La région se situe dans le règne Nearctic et est classée comme mediterranean forests, woodlands & scrub. L'altitude, l'humidité, le feu, les sols, les côtes et l'utilisation humaine des terres peuvent tous rendre le paysage réel plus varié qu'une seule couleur de carte ne le laisse penser.
Pression du changement
Nature Could Recover
Plotwright affiche ceci comme l'empreinte RESOLVE actuelle. Au fil des décennies ou des siècles, le réchauffement, les perturbations, les espèces envahissantes, l'utilisation des terres et la restauration peuvent déplacer la bordure vivante d'une région même lorsque la carte de référence reste fixe.

Collections de plantation

Des recettes de plantation finalisées où chaque membre peut supporter la plage climatique de cette région. Le badge d'adaptation se base sur la plante la plus sensible de la collection, si bien qu'une collection résiliente est un point de départ plus sûr que n'importe quelle vedette isolée.
Actuellement adaptée · 2 plantes
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Annabelle hydrangea
Coral bells
+4
Actuellement adaptée · 8 plantes
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Switchgrass
Little bluestem
Common milkweed
Black-eyed Susan
Wild bergamot
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Cutleaf coneflower
New England aster
Actuellement adaptée · 3 plantes
Kitchen patio planters
A compact edible collection for containers, patios, and near-door harvesting.
Genovese basil
Lacinato kale
Coral bells
+2
Actuellement adaptée · 6 plantes
Mediterranean drought-tolerant edible
A low-water edible palette of culinary herbs + a hardy grape for hot dry sunny sites. Mediterranean-origin plants thrive on neglect; their primary failure mode is overwatering, not underwatering.
English lavender
Rosemary
Garden sage
Oregano
Common thyme
Fox grape
+5
Actuellement adaptée · 9 plantes
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Butterfly weed
Common milkweed
Purple coneflower
Wild bergamot
Scarlet bee balm
Little bluestem
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Swamp sunflower
Smooth blue aster
Actuellement adaptée · 4 plantes
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
English lavender
Purple coneflower
Black-eyed Susan
Switchgrass

Régions de plantation similaires

Parcourez d'autres régions au rythme similaire d'étés chauds et secs. Leurs listes de plantes peuvent suggérer des espèces et des combinaisons à comparer.
RESOLVE 422 - Nearctic
California coastal sage and chaparral
California coastal sage and chaparral covers the cismontane lowlands and footslopes from Point Conception south through Baja California — the chaparral and coastal-sage-scrub matrix interleaved with oak woodland, riparian gallery forest, and the coastal salt-marsh fringe. The most species-rich Mediterranean-climate flora in North America; sage, ceanothus, manzanita, and the fire-following annual wildflowers carry the visible identity.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zones 11a-12b
+2.8°F d’ici 2070
12,700 sq mi
Profil éditorial
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 423 - Nearctic
California interior chaparral and woodlands
The California interior chaparral and woodlands ecoregion forms an elliptical ring of hills and low mountains around California's Central Valley, stretching from Shasta Lake south toward Wheeler Ridge. Its biologically rich mosaic includes chaparral, grasslands, oak savannas and woodlands, serpentine communities, pine and montane conifer forests, riparian forests, and wetlands. The climate is Mediterranean, with warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters. Notably, it hosts the largest number of endemic mammals of any ecoregion in the U.S. and Canada, with the Alameda whipsnake as its flagship species; urban sprawl and rural development are leading threats.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zones 7b-12a
+3.1°F d’ici 2070
27,780 sq mi
Niveau NNH 3
RESOLVE 425 - Nearctic
Santa Lucia Montane Chaparral & Woodlands
The Santa Lucia Montane Chaparral & Woodlands ecoregion hugs the Pacific coast along California's Santa Lucia Mountains, part of the Southern Coast Ranges, running from the Monterey Peninsula south through rugged Big Sur to areas west of Templeton. Moist western slopes support forests of coast redwood, Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and Monterey pine, while drier interiors carry chaparral and oak woodlands. The climate is Mediterranean, with cool, often foggy summers near the coast giving way to hot interior summers. Notably, the region holds the southernmost native stands of coast redwood and the endemic Santa Lucia fir, the rarest and most narrowly distributed fir in North America.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zones 10b-12a
+2.8°F d’ici 2070
1,817 sq mi
Niveau NNH 3
RESOLVE 785 - Palearctic
Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
The Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests ring the Aegean Sea, spanning most of mainland Greece and the Aegean islands, the western coast of Turkey, and reaching into southeastern North Macedonia and southwestern Bulgaria. Its vegetation is classic Mediterranean: dense maquis shrubland of holm oak, strawberry tree, and bay laurel, extensive pine forests of Calabrian (Turkish) pine, Aleppo pine, and stone pine, with sweet chestnut and oriental beech on cooler northern slopes. The climate is Mediterranean, with mild winters and dry summers. The ecoregion's flagship is the oriental sweetgum (Liquidambar orientalis), endemic to a limited area of southwestern Turkey and the Greek island of Rhodes, and much of the original habitat has been heavily degraded by human activity dating back to ancient times. For gardeners drawn to drought-tolerant Mediterranean planting, native genera such as Arbutus (strawberry tree), Laurus (bay laurel), and the pines offer ornamental, climate-suited choices.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zones 9a-12b
+3.5°F d’ici 2070
51,531 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 88 - Afrotropic
Albany thickets
The Albany Thickets ecoregion lies in South Africa's Eastern Cape, concentrated in the wide valleys of the Great Fish, Sundays, and Gamtoos rivers around the Albany region. It forms a dense, spiny shrubland and woodland with a canopy up to about 2.5 metres tall, growing on well-drained sandy soils and rich in succulents such as the porkbush (Portulacaria afra), jade plant (Crassula ovata), aloes, and succulent Euphorbia, alongside trees like Schotia afra. The climate is dry, hot in summer and cold in winter, with inland valleys swinging from near 0 degrees C to over 40 degrees C and receiving low, irregular rainfall. The thickets form part of the Cape Floristic Region and are a noted center of endemism for succulent Euphorbia, while Addo Elephant National Park protects African bush elephants and black rhinoceros within the region. For gardeners, the spekboom (Portulacaria afra) and jade plant native here are both widely grown ornamental, drought-tolerant succulents.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zones 10b-13b
+3.1°F d’ici 2070
14,181 sq mi
Niveau NNH 3
RESOLVE 786 - Palearctic
Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests
The Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests cover the mountains and plateaus of southwestern Anatolia in Turkey, a transitional zone where Mediterranean conditions grade into increasingly continental climate moving from west to east. Its forests are a mosaic of pines and deciduous broadleaf trees: Turkish pine (Pinus brutia) holds the western foothills and inland depressions, while the emblematic Anatolian black pine (Pinus nigra ssp. pallasiana) dominates the drier east and higher elevations, mixing with oaks (Quercus cerris, Q. pubescens, Q. robur, Q. frainetto), sweet chestnut, Oriental beech, and juniper. The climate is broadly Mediterranean, with hot dry summers and rainy winters and annual precipitation ranging roughly 400 to 600 mm. The region shelters brown bears, grey wolves, Saker falcons, and the critically endangered long-legged wood frog, and its wetlands are vital for migratory waterfowl such as Dalmatian pelicans and white-headed ducks; it is classified as critical or endangered, with only a small fraction of its area protected. For gardeners, several plants native here are familiar ornamentals, including the cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) and sweet chestnut.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zones 9a-12a
+3.3°F d’ici 2070
33,325 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4

Sous-régions d'affinement national

Au sein de cette écorégion RESOLVE, les agences nationales reconnaissent des sous-régions plus détaillées. Plotwright attribue chaque polygone de sous-région au polygone RESOLVE qui le contient selon son centroïde.
EPA Niveau III (États-Unis uniquement) - 1 sous-région
8 · Southern California Mountains
Source : USGS / EPA via Omernik (1987).

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