HABITAT: The Hermes copper is dependent for survival on its spiny redberry host plant, common in cismontane California coastal sage scrub and chaparral vegetation communities. But for unknown reasons, ...

Native plant species are at home in local climates and soils, do not interfere with local ecosystems and need less water than ...

These soft soils allow kangaroo rats to dig shallow burrows and they support alluvial sage scrub, coastal sage scrub, and chaparral vegetation. RANGE: The San Bernardino kangaroo rat was once a common ...