Northern coastal scrub explained

Northern coastal scrub is a scrubland plant community of California and Oregon. It occurs along the Pacific Coast from Point Sur on the Central California coast in Monterey County, California, to southern Oregon. It frequently forms a landscape mosaic with coastal prairie.

The Northern coastal scrub's predominant plants are low evergreen shrubs and herbs.

Characteristic shrubs include coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis),^[1] California yerba santa (Eriodictyon californicum), coast silk-tassel (Garrya elliptica), salal (Gaultheria shallon), and yellow bush lupine (Lupinus arboreus).

Herbaceous Northern coastal scrub species include western blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bellum), Douglas iris (Iris douglasiana), and native grasses.

See also

• Coastal sage scrub
• California coastal prairie
• California coastal sage and chaparral ecoregion
• Native grasses of California

Notes and References

1. Wrubel . Eric . Parker . V. Thomas . Local patterns of diversity in California northern coastal scrub . Ecology and Evolution . August 2018 . 8 . 15 . 7250–7260 . 10.1002/ece3.4104 . 15 September 2023 . en . 2045-7758. free . 6106371 .