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Chaparral
Chaparral
is a
shrubland
or
heathland
plant community
found primarily in the U.S. state of
California
and in the northern portion of the
Baja California Peninsula
,
Mexico
. It is shaped by a
Mediterranean climate
(mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire, featuring summer-drought-tolerant plants with hard
sclerophyllous
evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved,
drought-deciduous
,
scrub
community of
coastal sage scrub
, found below the chaparral biome. Chaparral covers 5 percent of the state of California, and associated Mediterranean shrubland an additional 3.5 percent. The name comes from the
Spanish
word for
scrub oak
,
chaparro
.
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