DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Salvia mellifera | Black Sage 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Black sage is distributed in the Coast Ranges of California from Contra
Costa and western Stanislaus counties southward into Baja California
[5,40].  It also occurs on the Channel islands off the coast of southern
California [5,35].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub


STATES : 
     CA  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CABR  CHIS  PINN  SAMO


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    7  Lower Basin and Range


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K033  Chaparral
   K034  Montane chaparral
   K035  Coastal sagebrush
   K042  Creosote bush - bursage


SAF COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   204  North coastal shrub
   205  Coastal sage shrub
   206  Chamise chaparral
   207  Scrub oak mixed chaparral
   208  Ceanothus mixed chaparral
   211  Creosotebush scrub
   212  Blackbush
   501  Saltbush-greasewood


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Black sage is a shrub component of coastal sage scrub, chaparral, and
desert scrub communities throughout much of California [10,20,34].
Published classifications listing black sage as a dominant component of
the vegetation are presented below.

Preliminary descriptions of the terrestrial natural communities of
  California [15]
Vegetation types of the San Bernadino Mountains [17]
The community composition of California coastal sage scrub [28]
A vegetation classification system applied to southern California [42]

Common associates include [12,15,28,51,54]:

        Coastal sage scrub:  California sagebrush (Artemisia californica),
        California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum), white sage,
        purple sage, California encelia (Encelia californica), common
        deerweed (Lotus scoparius), lemonade sumac (Rhus integrifolia),
        chaparral yucca (Yucca whipplei), bush monkeyflower (Mimulus
        aurantiacus), bluedick (Brodiaea pulchella), brome (Bromus
        spp.), filaree (Erodium spp.), mustards (Brassica spp.), and
        schismus (Schismus spp.).

        Chaparral:  chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum), white sage,
        ceanothus (Ceanothus spp.), manzanita (Arctostaphylos spp.),
        laurel sumac (Malosma laurina), California buckwheat, and poison-oak
        (Toxicodendron diversilobum).

        Desert scrub:  creosotebush (Larrea tridentata), white
        burrobush (Hymenolea salsola), and staghorn cholla (Opuntia
        echinocarpa).

Related categories for Species: Salvia mellifera | Black Sage