California oak woodland is a plant community found throughout the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of California in the United States and northwestern Baja California in Mexico. Oak woodland is widespread at lower elevations in coastal California; in interior valleys of the Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges; and in a ring around the California Central Valley grasslands. The dominant trees are oaks, interspersed with other broadleaf and coniferous trees, with an understory of grasses, herbs, geophytes, and California native plants.
California oak woodland on the east flank of Sonoma Mountain.
California chaparral and woodlands
The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of southwestern Oregon, northern, central, and southern California and northwestern Baja California (Mexico), located on the west coast of North America. It is an ecoregion of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome, and part of the Nearctic realm.
California chaparral and woodlands
Montane chaparral and woodlands in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California
Southern coastal sage and chaparral in the Santa Monica Mountains, near Malibu.
California oak woodlands, in Gaviota State Park, near Santa Barbara, California