Elliott Chaparral
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This reserve is located on low, rolling hills northeast of the Miramar Naval Air Station. It is covered with chaparral typical of the foothills near the coast in San Diego County.
Over most of the area the preponderantly dominant shrub is chamise, Adenostoma fasciculatum, but there is a scattering of other chaparral plants as well as of some plants more characteristic of the coastal sage scrub.
Shrubs of the ridgetop include yerba santa, Eriodictyon crassifolium, mission manzanita, Xylococcus bicolor, romero, Trichostema lanatum, laurel sumac, Malosma laurina, black sage, Salvia mellifera, buckwheat, Eriogonum fasciculatum, and Lotus scoparius. Shrubs more characteristic of the arroyos and north slopes include scrub oak, Quercus sp., toyon, Heteromeles arbutifolia, and California sagebrush, Artemisia californica.
Animals are typical of the area.
Integrity: The area is relatively undisturbed.
Use: Research, educational.
August 1976
Inventory of California Natural Areas
Revision © 2009 Steven Louis Hartman
