California coastal prairie, also known as northern coastal grassland, is a grassland plant community of California and Oregon in the Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands Biome. It is found along the Pacific Coast, from as far south as Los Angeles in Southern California up into southern Oregon.
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