Plants by habitat

thumb|Chaparral in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California Chaparral ( ) is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, southern Oregon, and northern Baja California, part of the California floristic province. 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.

thumb|Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna) on forest floor in spring

plants that grow at high elevation

plant that lives on land

thumb|350px|Renosterveld habitat above cultivated fields, [[Western Cape]]

temperate rainforest in the Pacific Northwest

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