1. Chaparral Biome: plant communities
Santa Monica Mountains:
Hard Chaparral, Woodlands, Riparian
Big Sycamore Canyon
Coastal Sage Scrub
(soft chaparral)
We will focus on looking at the common shrubs and how they are adapted to this biome.

2. Plants of the Coastal Sage Scrub Community…
Coastal Sagebrush
(Artemisia californica)
the dominant plant of this community

3. Deerweed often in association with Sagebrush… (Lotus scoparius) Lupin
(Lupinus sp)
Sticky Monkey Flower
(Mimulus sp)

4. Coast Prickly Pear Our Lord’s Candle (Opuntia littoralis)
(Yucca whipplei)

5. Laural Sumac
(Malosma laurina)
Coyote Bush
(Baccharis pilularis)

6. Purple and Black Sage Giant Coreopsis (Coreopsis gigantea)
(Salvia leucophylla, S. mellifera)
Giant Coreopsis
(Coreopsis gigantea)
Note leaf shape in the field

7. Toyon or Christmas Berry Lemonade Berry (Heteromeles arbutifolia)
(Rhus integrifolia)

8. Poison Oak
(Toxicodendron diversilobum
Mugwort
(Artemisia douglasiana)

9. Copast Live Oak Western Sycamore (Quercus agrifolia)
(Platanus racemosa)

10. Black Walnut
(Juglans californica)
Arroyo Willow
(Salix lasiolepis)

11. Bush Mallow California Buckwheat Erigonum fasciculatum
(Malacothamnus fasciculatus)

12. Bigpod Ceanothus Chamise, or Greasewood Hard Chaparral
(Ceanothus megacarpus)
Chamise, or Greasewood
(Adenostoma fasciculatum)

13. Black-hooded Parakeet (at Big Sycamore) (Nandayus nenday)
Elderberry
(Sambucus mexicana)
Black-hooded Parakeet (at Big Sycamore)
(Nandayus nenday)

14. Castor Bean (Ricinus communis)
Non-natives (Exotics)
                                                                                                  
Sweet Fennel
(Foeniculum vulgare)
Tree Tobacco
Foeniculum vulgare
Castor Bean (Ricinus communis)

15. One of the worst invasives:
Black Mustard
(Brassica nigra)
Giant Reed (Arundo donax)