Nearctic Nearctic The Baja California desert is a Desert ecoregion of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baja California desert"
The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of central and southern California ( United States) and northwestern Baja California ( Mexico), located on the west coast of North America. It is a Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub ecoregion, part of the Nearctic ecozone. ...more on Wikipedia about "California chaparral and woodlands"
California coastal prairie, also known as northern coastal grassland, is a grassland plant community of California and Oregon. It is found along the Pacific coast, from central California to southern Oregon. The strong winds and salt spray of along the coast prevent the growth of trees and shrubs, perpetuating a community of grasses and spring wildflowers, including California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica), Owl Clover (Orthocarpus erianthus), and Beach Strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis). The accumulated organic matter from centuries produce a rich, dark prairie soil ( mollisol). Coastal prairie often forms a landscape mosaic with northern coastal scrub. ...more on Wikipedia about "California coastal prairie"
The Klamath-Siskiyou forests are a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon. The ecoregion extends across 50,300 square kilometers (19,400 square miles) of the mountainous region known as the Klamath Knot. The ecoregion harbors rich biodiversity, with several distinct plant communities, including temperate rain forests, moist inland forests, oak forests and savannas, high elevation forests, and alpine grasslands. Thirty conifer species inhabit the region, including seven endemic species, making the region one of the richest coniferous forest regions of the world in species diversity. The region also has several edaphic plant communities, adapted to specific soil types, notably serpentine outcrops. ...more on Wikipedia about "Klamath-Siskiyou forests"
The Mojave Desert (Mojave is used for the desert while Mohave is used for the native people of the desert.) occupies a significant portion of Southern California and parts of Utah, Nevada and Arizona, in the United States. Named after the Mohave tribe of Native Americans, it occupies over 22,000 mi² (35,000 km²) in a typical Basin and Range topography. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mojave Desert"
The Northern California coastal forests are a temperate coniferous forests ecoregion of coastal Northern California, USA. The ecoregion is lies close to the Pacific Ocean, and is kept moist by Pacific Ocean storms during the winter months, and by coastal fogs in the summer months. The ecoregion covers 13,300 km² (5,100 square miles), extending from Del Norte County on the California- Oregon border south to Santa Cruz County. The ecoregion rarely extends more than 65 km inland from the coast. ...more on Wikipedia about "Northern California coastal forests"
Northern coastal scrub is a scrubland plant community of California and Oregon. It occurs along the Pacific Coast from Point Sur in Monterey County in Central California to southern Oregon. It frequently forms a landscape mosaic with coastal prairie. The predominant plants are low evergreen shrubs and herbs. Characteristic shrubs include Coyote Brush ( Baccharis pilularis), California Yerba Santa ( Eriodictyon californicum), Salal ( Gaultheria shallon), and Yellow Bush Lupine ( Lupinus arboreus). Herbaceous species include Western Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium bellum), Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana), and grasses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Northern coastal scrub"
The Palouse is a region covering approximately 16,000 square kilometres of land in northwestern Idaho and southeastern Washington. ...more on Wikipedia about "Palouse"
The Sierra Juárez and San Pedro Mártir pine-oak forests is a small ecoregion that covers the higher elevations of the Sierra Juárez and Sierra San Pedro Mártir ranges of the northern Baja California Peninsula in Mexico, near the border with California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sierra Juarez and San Pedro Martir pine-oak forests"
The Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests are a subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion of the Sierra Madre Occidental range of Mexico and the southwestern United States. The forests are surrounded by deserts and xeric shrublands and tropical dry forests at lower elevations, including the Sonoran Desert to the northwest, the Chihuahuan Desert to the northeast and east, the Meseta Central matorral and Central Mexican matorral to the southeast, and the Sinaloan dry forests to the west and southwest. The Madrean sky islands of Arizona and New Mexico and the Mexican state of Sonora, a complex of high elevation pine-oak forest enclaves surrounded at lower elevations by the Sonoran Desert, are a northern extension of the ecoregion. These forests are one of the Madrean pine-oak forests ecoregions, which are found thoughout the Sierra Madre ranges of Mexico and the US Southwest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests"
The Sonoran Desert (sometimes also called Gila Desert after Gila River) is a North American desert which straddles part of the U.S.-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the Mexican state of Sonora. It is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 120,000 square miles (311,000 square kilometres). The desert contains a variety of unique plants and animals, such as the saguaro cactus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sonoran Desert"
The Texas blackland prairies are an ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. It consists of a main belt of 43,000 km² and two islands of grasslands southeast of the main blackland prairie belt. The main belt consists of oaklands and savannas and runs north, eastern and northwest Texas. The first island is the Fayette Prairie, encompassing 17,000 km², and the second is the San Antonio Prairie of 7,000 km². The two islands are separated from the mainbelt by the oak woodlands of the East Central Texas forests. ...more on Wikipedia about "Texas blackland prairies"
The Western Gulf coastal grasslands are a subtropical grassland ecoregion of the southern United States and northeastern Mexico. The ecoregion covers an area of 77,425 km², extending along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico from southeastern Louisiana through Texas and into Mexico's Tamaulipas state, where it is known as the Tamaulipan pastizal. Less than 1% of the ecoregion remains in pristine condition, almost entirely in Texas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Western Gulf coastal grasslands"
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