Low, soft-woody subshrubs (to ca. 1m high) that are most active in winter and early spring. Many taxa are facultatively drought-deciduous. Dominated by Artemisia californica and Eriogonum fasciculatum together with Malosma laurina and Salvia apiana. Stem and leaf succulents, while present, are nearly as conspicuous as in Maritime Succulent Scrub (32400).
SITE FACTORS:
Typically on low moisture availability sites: steep, xeric slopes or clay-rich soils that are slow to release stored water. Intergrades at higher elevations with several chaparrals (37000) or, in drier more inland areas with Riversidean Sage Scrub (32700).
DISTRIBUTION:
This is the wide-spread coastal sage scrub in coastal
southern California from Los Angeles into Baja California.
UPDATE: 10/86
Source: Holland, 1986
Digital Text: NatureBase