California plant communities

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California plant communities are various sites existing in California that botanists have attempted to structure into identifiable groupings by vegitation type.

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[edit] Categorization

Robert Ornduff and colleagues Phyllis M. Faber and Todd Keeler-Wolf did much work on this problem, and in the 2003 Natural History Guide Introduction to California Plant Life established a cohesive set of titles to identify California Plant communities based on but somewhat different from those earlier established by California botanist Philip A. Munz.

Broken into three large groupings based on geography, the Ornduff scheme includes: the Cismontane (west of the Sierra Nevada), Montane and Transmontane regions (East of the Sierra crest and the Deserts).

[edit] The Cismontane Region

[edit] Montane Region

  • Montane Coniferous Forest (Yellow Pine in Munz)
  • Montane Chaparral (not in Munz)
  • Subalpine Forest (Red Fir Forest, Lodgepole Pine Forest, Bristlecone Pine and Subalpine Forest)
  • Montane Meadow (not in Munz)
  • Alpine Fell-field (same in Munz)

[edit] Transmontane Region

  • Pinyon-Juniper Woodland (Includes Northern Juniper Woodland, Pinyon-Juniper Woodland (both in Munz))
  • Sagebrush Scrub (same in Munz)
  • Shadscale Scrub (same in Munz)
  • Alkali Sink Scrub (same in Munz)
  • Joshua Tree Woodland (same in Munz)
  • Creosote Bush Woodland (same in Munz)

[edit] References

Introduction to California Plant Life Revised Edition Robert Ornduff, Phyllis M. Faber, Todd Keeler-Wolf (ISBN 0-520-23704-8)

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