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.
where is the chaparral biome located in the world
primarily in the U.S. state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico