serpentine grassland

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CPC Plant Profile - National Collection of Endangered Plants
... Forbes contributed to this Plant Profile. Acanthomintha duttonii San Mateo thornmint is found only in serpentine grassland in a small area south of San Francisco, in San Mateo County, California. This annual ... Top State Range California Habitat This species grows on open substrate on mesic grassland slopes in soils derived from serpentine rock at elevations below 300 m. It grows in a species-rich ...
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California coastal prairie and bluff plant community
... Some of the wet sections of Serpentine Grassland closely fit this Coastal Prairie. Very few of the California Coastal Prairie plants make it in the Valley Grassland. The pH, rainfall, and soils ... the Coastal Prairie from the serpentine grassland is that, in winter, the Coastal Prairie is much wetter, (soaking wet, in fact, and oozing water) than the serpentine grassland. The picture below was ...
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Soap Lilies In California
... ridges or bluffs within coastal sage scrub, while C. pomeridianum typically grows in valley grassland and more sheltered (shady) sites in the coastal sage scrub and chaparral. Two ... lily (Chlorogalum pomeridianum var. minus) in coastal central California. The shiny green rock is serpentine, an interesting formation in California associated with endemic plant species. The crushed green plant, ...
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CPC Plant Profile - National Collection of Endangered Plants
... PA (Pennell 1928 and 1935) appear to correspond with the distribution of serpentine rock outcrops and associated barrens and grassland vegetation (Tyndall and Hull 1999). Information on habitat and ecology of ... Books (Sections) Tyndall, R.W.; Hull, J.C. 1999. Vegetation, flora, and plant physiology of serpentine barrens of Eastern North America. In: Anderson, R.C.; Fralish, J.S.; Baskin, J. ...
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Liliaceae
... ). FRINGED ONION. Perennial. Bl "Apr-Jun". Dry slopes and flats. S Fk Orestimba on serpentine soil. Allium falcifolium. {+} SICKLE-LEAVED ONION. SCYTHE-LEAVED ONION. COAST FLATSTEM ONION. Perennial. Bl ... SPEAR. GRASS NUT. WALLY BASKET. TRIPLET LILY. Perennial. Bl Apr-Jun. Heavy soils of grassland and open woods. Common throughout. Zigadenus fremontii. {++} STAR-LILY. STAR ZYGADENE. FREMONT'S ZYGADENE ...
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Scrophulariaceae
... Lake. Linaria canadensis. {++} BLUE TOADFLAX. Annual or biennial. Bl Apr-May. Dry slopes. In grassland along Rooster Comb Trail; on slopes next to pond NW of Robinson Mtn. Mimulus ... throughout. Mimulus congdonii. {?} CONGDON'S MONKEYFLOWER. Annual. Bl Apr-May. Moist soil. Thomas Addition; serpentine at NE corner of park. Mimulus douglasii. {++} PURPLE MOUSE-EARS. CHINLESS MOUSE-EARS. BROWNIES. ...
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Many areas of the San Joaquin Valley may have been a grassland plant community.
... of the San Joaquin Valley may have been a grassland plant community. Las Pilitas -Back to Plant Communities - Habitats Valley Grassland Valley Grassland would have been better named Valley Wildflower Marshes, ... to mind. (Again, you only find a grassland in patches in California, in areas of high sodium or high boron, shallow soils, or serpentine, or another element imbalance, or seasonally flooded ...
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Glossary
... 10.2 cm (4 in) in d.b.h. Savannah- Essentially lowland tropical and subtropical grassland, generally with a scattering of trees and/or shrubs. If woody growth is absent it ... dull green color and often a mottled appearance. Serpentinite- A rock consisting almost wholly of serpentine minerals derived from the alteration of previously existing divine and pyroxene. Sessile- Without a stalk ...
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Scottish Rock Garden Club - >Feature Article
... paired bridges. On the north side of the gorge are massive outcrops of ultramafic rock (serpentine or peridotite). "Feather River Canyon" I quickly found erythroniums growing along the side of the ... is a rich agricultural region underlain by very deep loess soils. The natural vegetation was grassland and Ponderosa pine savanna, but most of the natural vegetation has been cleared for agriculture ...
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