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Chaparral in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California. Chaparral (/ ˌ ʃ æ p ə ˈ r æ l, ˌ tʃ æ p-/ SHAP-ə-RAL, CHAP-) [1] is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, southern Oregon, and the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
Larrea tridentata, called creosote bush, greasewood, [2] and chaparral is a medicinal herb. [3] In Sonora, it is more commonly called hediondilla ; [ 4 ] Spanish hediondo = "smelly". It is a flowering plant in the family Zygophyllaceae .
The word chaparral is derived from the Spanish word for scrub oak, chaparro. The non-specific meaning of the term is 'short in stature'. Because most scrub vegetation is rather low growing, the term is broadly applied to all of the vegetation in chaparral communities. [citation needed]
The roadrunners (genus Geococcyx), also known as chaparral birds or chaparral cocks, are two species of fast-running ground cuckoos with long tails and crests. They are found in the southwestern and south-central United States, Mexico and Central America, [2] [3] usually in the desert. Although capable of flight, roadrunners generally run away ...
The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of southwestern Oregon, northern, central, and southern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California , located on the west coast of North America.
Chaparral ecosystems are known for intense, wind-whipped fires, said Robert Gray, a Canadian wildfire ecologist and former wildland firefighter. ... as it does, it is leaping from one roof to ...
Larrea divaricata, commonly known as chaparral, is a small evergreen bush in the family Zygophyllaceae. It is native to arid regions of South America, where it is known as jarilla or jarillo . It was first described in 1800 by the Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles .
Chaparral is derived from the Spanish word chaparro (translation: "a forest made of short trees") and applies to a biome found in California and other Mediterranean climates. Chaparral may also refer to: