Plant Communities of the San Gabriel Mountains

Joshua Tree Woodland

• Description
  • unusual trees
  • spear-like greenish leaves
  • shaggy trunk
  • widely spaced
  • interspersed with shrubs
  • carpets of wildflowers in the spring

• Location
  • well-drained slopes and tablelands
  • the Antelope Valley portion of the Mojave Desert on the northern face of the San Gabriels
  • 2,000-6,000'
  • below pinyon juniper woodland and above sagebrush scrub

• Dominant species
  • Joshua tree Yucca brevifolia
  • junipers Juniperus spp.

• For more information
  • The Joshua Tree from Desert USA
  • 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: Joshua tree series from A Manual of California
  • Digital Desert's Mojave Desert Wild Flowers
  • The Antelope Valley Botanical Management Area

Go to:

• Plant Communities of the SGM Introduction
• Field Guide to the San Gabriel Mountains: Natural History: Plants

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Updated January 21, 2000