Plant Communities of the San Gabriel Mountains Valley and Foothill Woodland
- Description
- scattered trees
- broadleaf (not needleleaf)
- thick and dark, if evergreen
- large, lobed or compound (having many leaflets), if deciduous
- rounded or vase-like form
- grassy and herbaceous understory
- Location
- gently sloping hillsides or tablelands
- bordering the San Fernando, San Gabriel, Santa Clarita, and Pomona Valleys
- 300' to 5,000'
- Pine Canyon Road, Liebre Mountain for buckeye and valley oak
- Glendora Ridge Road for Southern California black walnut
- Dominant species
- coast live oak Quercus agrifolia
- interior live oak Quercus wislizenii
- Englemann oak Quercus engelmannii
- valley oak Quercus lobata
- Southern California black walnut Juglans californica
- California buckeye Aesculus californica
- For more information
- California buckeye from the Ruth Bancroft Garden
- Oak and Foothill Woodlands Plant Communities of Mount Diablo State Park
- Distribution and Occurrence of Southern California Walnut Woodland
- Sample CNPS vegetation series, their formal name for a plant community, include descriptions and pictures of the habitat, as well as of the individual species: California walnut series, Coast live oak series, Engelmann oak series, Interior live oak series, and Valley oak series, from A Manual of California Vegetation
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Updated January 21, 2000