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Plant Communities in the San Gabriel Mountains

Valley & Foothill Woodland

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

Hard Chaparral

Chamise Adenostoma fasciculatum
Manzanita Arctostaphylos spp.
Ceanothus spp.
Mountain mahogany Cercocarpus betuloides
Yucca Yucca whipplei

Riparian

white alder Alnus rhombifolia
California sycamore Platanus racemosa
bigleaf maple Acer macrophyllum
Fremont cottonwood Populus fremontii
willows Salix spp.

Montane Forests

low elevation:
- bigcone Douglas fir - Pseudotsuga macrocarpa
- canyon oak- Quercus chysopelis
middle elevation:
- Ponderosa pine - Ponderosa Pine
- Coulter pine - Pinus coulteri
- canyon oak - Quercus chysopelis
- incense cedar - Calocedrus decurrens
high country:
- Jeffrey pine - Pinus jeffreyi
- sugar pine - Sugar Pine
- white fir - Abies concolor
- incense cedar - Calocedrus decurrens
- black oak
8000'+ lodgepole pine, limber pine

Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands

Pinyon pine Pinus monophyllum
junipers Juniperus spp.