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    The Transverse Ranges are a group of mountain ranges of southern California, in the Pacific Coast Ranges physiographic region in North America. The Transverse...
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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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    County. The other three coastal California mountain ranges are the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges and the Klamath Mountains. Physiographically, they...
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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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    predominantly north-south, unlike the Transverse Ranges to their north, which mostly run east-west. Rocks in the ranges are dominated by Mesozoic granitic...
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    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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    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 the entire...
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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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    desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States. Named for the indigenous Mohave...
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    Rubus leucodermis (category Natural history of the Transverse Ranges)
    Rubus leucodermis, also called whitebark raspberry, blackcap raspberry, or blue raspberry, is a species of Rubus native to western North America. Rubus...
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    Chaparral (category Natural history of the Transverse 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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    Old Greyback, is the highest peak in Southern California and the Transverse Ranges at 11,503 feet (3,506 m). It is in the San Bernardino Mountains, 27...
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    Salvia apiana (category Natural history of the Transverse 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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    Pacific gopher snake (category Natural history of the Transverse Ranges)
    as in the wild. The Pacific gopher snake ranges up and down the West Coast of the United States, its range ending in the southern coast of California...
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    Lomatium utriculatum (category Natural history of the Transverse Ranges)
    Lomatium utriculatum is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name common lomatium or spring gold. It is native to western...
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    the Transverse Ranges, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges of the west coast of North America. It is the westernmost range in the Transverse Ranges. The...
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    San Andreas to jog westward. This has led to the formation of the Transverse Ranges in Southern California, and to a lesser but still significant extent...
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    usually spotless and a mostly black thorax. Its range is the coastal counties north of the Transverse Ranges. "Coccinella californica". bugguide. "Belicek...
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    The Catalan Transversal Range (Serralada Transversal) is a system of minor mountain ranges at the eastern end of the Pre-Pyrenees, between the Osona and...
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    Pedicularis densiflora (category Natural history of the Transverse Ranges)
    Pedicularis densiflora, known commonly as Indian warrior or warrior's-plume lousewort, is a plant in the family Orobanchaceae. Indian warrior is native...
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    Tehachapi Mountains (category Transverse Ranges)
    "hard climb") are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in the Western United States. The range extends for approximately 40...
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    Pseudognaphalium californicum (category Natural history of the Transverse 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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    Paeonia californica (category Natural history of the Transverse Ranges)
    Paeonia californica is a perennial herbaceous plant of 35–70 cm high, that retreats underground in summer, and reoccurs with the arrival of the winter...
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    Phacelia tanacetifolia (category Natural history of the Transverse 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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    Clarkia unguiculata (category Natural history of the Transverse Ranges)
    Clarkia unguiculata is a species of wildflower known by the common name elegant clarkia or mountain garland. This plant is endemic to California, where...
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    San Emigdio Mountains (category Transverse Ranges)
    The San Emigdio Mountains are a part of the Transverse Ranges in Southern California, extending from Interstate 5 at Lebec and Gorman on the east to Highway...
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    Castilleja affinis (category Natural history of the Transverse 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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    Scrophularia californica (category Natural history of the Transverse Ranges)
    Scrophularia californica is a flowering plant in the figwort family which is known by the common names California figwort and California bee plant. It...
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    Collinsia heterophylla (category Natural history of the Transverse Ranges)
    innocence, is a flowering plant native to California and the Peninsular Ranges in northern Baja California. Collinsia heterophylla is an annual plant growing...
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    California mixed evergreen forest (category Natural history of the California Coast 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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