Northern coastal scrub is a

scrubland Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity. It ...

plant community of

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and

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. 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

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shrubs and

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s. Characteristic shrubs include coyote brush ''(Baccharis pilularis)'', 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.

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