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Chaparral

Chaparral in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California

Chaparral (/ˌʃæpəˈræl, ˌæp-/ SHAP-ə-RAL, CHAP-)[1] is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, in southern Oregon and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild wet winters and hot dry summers) and infrequent, high-intensity crown fires.

Many chaparral shrubs have hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought-deciduous, scrub community of coastal sage scrub, found often on drier, southern facing slopes.

Three other closely related chaparral shrubland systems occur in southern Arizona, western Texas, and along the eastern side of central Mexico's mountain chains, all having summer rains in contrast to the Mediterranean climate of other chaparral formations. Chaparral comprises 9% of California's wildland vegetation and contains 20% of its plant species.

See US Forest Service map and details of distribution and occurrence

  1. ^ "chaparral". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d.

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