The Peninsular Ranges (also called the Lower California province) are a group of mountain ranges that stretch 1,500 km (930 mi) from Southern California...
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Cascade Range, Oregon Coast Range, California Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and the Sierra Madre Occidental. The term Coast Range is...
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mountain ranges. The Transverse Ranges and the Peninsular Ranges are key players in the region's climate. Essentially, the mountain ranges separate southern...
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Geography of California (section Peninsular Ranges)
the Cascade Range, the Modoc Plateau, the Basin and Range, the Coast Ranges, the Central Valley, the Sierra Nevada, the Transverse Ranges, the Mojave...
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County. The other three coastal California mountain ranges are the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges and the Klamath Mountains. Physiographically, they...
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Bernardino, Riverside and Kern counties. The Peninsular Ranges lie to the south. The name is due to the ranges' east–west orientation, making them transverse...
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This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies. First, the highest and longest mountain ranges on Earth are listed, followed...
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Chaparral (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
mountains of the California Coast Ranges, the Transverse Ranges, and the western slopes of the northern Peninsular Ranges. California interior chaparral...
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ships. The Peninsular Ranges are a group of mountain ranges that extend 900 miles (1,400 km) from the Los Angeles basin and Transverse Ranges southward...
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Salvia apiana (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
Salvia apiana, the Californian white sage, bee sage, or sacred sage is an evergreen perennial shrub that is native to the southwestern United States and...
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the rain shadow–creating Cascades, Sierra Nevada, Transverse, and Peninsular Ranges on the west. The North American xeric region of over 95,751 sq mi...
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Counties) Palos Verdes Peninsula (Los Angeles County) Panamint Range (Inyo County) Peninsular Ranges (San Diego, Riverside, & Orange Counties) Pleito Hills (Kern...
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Laguna Mountains (category Peninsular Ranges)
The Laguna Mountains are a mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges in eastern San Diego County, California. The mountains run in a northwest/southeast...
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California mixed evergreen forest (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
Southern California Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada of central and northern California; the Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges of southern California;...
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on the east by the Peninsular Ranges, and extends from approximately 31º to 24º north. Elevations vary, and include mountain ranges on the western central...
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North American Cordillera (category Mountain ranges of North America)
peaks on the continent. Its mountain ranges generally run north to south along three main belts: the Pacific Coast Ranges in the west, the Nevadan belt in...
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Collinsia heterophylla (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
houses or innocence, is a flowering plant native to California and the Peninsular Ranges in northern Baja California. Collinsia heterophylla is an annual plant...
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Phacelia tanacetifolia (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
occasionally found at much higher elevations. It is used outside its native range in agriculture as a cover crop, a bee plant, an attractant for other beneficial...
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Douglas M.; Miller, Fred K. (2014). Douglas M. Morton, Fred K. Miller, Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Baja and Southern California, Geological Society of America...
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Los Angeles Basin (category Peninsular Ranges)
sedimentary basin located in Southern California, in a region known as the Peninsular Ranges. The basin is also connected to an anomalous group of east-west trending...
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Vaccinium ovatum (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
the redwood area, it occurs sporadically along the Coast Ranges to the western Transverse Ranges near Santa Barbara and on the California Channel Islands...
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Asclepias fascicularis (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
Asclepias fascicularis is a species of milkweed known by the common names narrowleaf milkweed and Mexican whorled milkweed. It is a perennial herb that...
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Amsinckia menziesii (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
Amsinckia menziesii is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family. The plant has two varieties: Amsinckia...
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Constrained by Large N-Detrital Zircon and Micropaleontological Approaches: Peninsular Ranges Forearc, Baja California, Mexico". The Sedimentary Record. 20 (1)...
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Salvia mellifera (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
Salvia mellifera (Californian black sage, also known as seel by the Mahuna) is a small, highly aromatic, evergreen shrub of the genus Salvia (the sages)...
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Sierra de San Pedro Mártir (category Peninsular Ranges)
long Peninsular Ranges System, that extends from Southern California down the Baja California Peninsula into Baja California Sur state. The range's highest...
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Pseudognaphalium californicum (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
Pseudognaphalium californicum (syn. Gnaphalium californicum) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by several common names, including...
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Mojave Desert usually has only winter rains. The west coast Peninsular Ranges, or other west ranges, of Southern California–northern Baja California, block...
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Euphorbia nutans (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
Euphorbia nutans is a species of Euphorbia known by the common names eyebane and nodding spurge. It is native to much of the United States, Eastern Canada...
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Castilleja affinis (category Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges)
Castilleja affinis is a species of Castilleja known by the common name coast Indian paintbrush. It is native to western North America from Washington to...
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