This document describes various plants found in different habitats in California, including grasslands, woodlands, chaparral, conifer forests, and riparian areas. It provides details on the appearance, size, growth patterns and identifying characteristics of species such as wild oats, green needle grass, blue oak, California poppy, holly-leaf redberry, Sierra gooseberry, ponderosa pine, eastern red cedar, American robin, stinging nettle, and valley oak. Habitat ranges and elevations are also mentioned for some species.

1. Valley Grasslands

2. Wild Oats
Found: 130-3900 feet
-Grows 3-4 feet tall
-mature spikelets are bell-shaped
with bent, bristle-like projections

3. Green Needle Grass
Found: below 6500 feet
-grows 3 feet height
-blades grow from 4 to 10 inches

4. Western
Buttercup
-Shiny yellow on thin ascending stalks

5. Foothill Woodlands

6. Yellow map Lichen

7. Blue Oak
-Whitish bark, thin scales
on trunk, and small
branches
-leaves are sized from 1-3
inches

8. Miner’s
Lettuce
-leaves are united, the flowers are in bundles
and their petals are colored white to pinkish

9. Chaparral

10. California Poppy
- Petals are fan shaped,
usually have 4 petals
- Flower usually orange to
pale yellow colored

11. Holly-leaf
Redberry
-Stout shrub, treelike
about 4 to 12 feet tall
-fruits, when ripe, are
long, oval, bright red

12. Western
Labrador
Tea
-evergreen leaves, crowded toward the end of the
branches
-small, clustered white flowers

13. Mixed Conifer Forest

14. Sierra
Gooseberry
-leaves grow 3-
to 5-lobed
-flowers are
together or
single
-bears stout
pickled fruits

15. Ponderosa
Pine
-grows from 60-
225 ft tall
-needles grow in
threes, are 5 to
10 inches long
-cones are near
end of the
branches,
reddish brown

16. Eastern Red Cedar
-small tree, short trunk
-bark is reddish brown
-fruits cones and berries

17. Riparian

18. American
Robin
-wing span of 17
inches
-brown body,
reddish brown
chest, black
tailed, chin and
under tail is
white

19. Stinging Nettle
-greenish leaves
-fuzzy stems and leaves
with stinging hairs
-grows in groups and
shady areas
-below 4500 ft

20. Valley Oak
-height from 40 to over
125 ft
-thick bark, huge
branches, leaves are
rounded lobes

21. The End