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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).

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