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| | Los Penasquitos Watershed Profile |
 | | Dominant plant species include: arroyo willow (Salix lasiolepis), fl willow (Salix goodingii), Douglas mugwort (Artemisia douglasiana), mule fat (Baccharis glutinosa), and amorphia (Amorpha fruticosa). |
 | | Southern mule fat scrub is often a successional phase in a vegetative communities development, and occupies arroyos or washes which are too dry for perennial riparian woodlands, but too wet from frequent flooding for upland vegetative communities. |
 | | A riparian woodland dominated by plant species: Western sycamore (Platunus racemosa), fl cottonwood (Populus fremontii), Mexican elderberry (Sambuccus mexicana), buckwheat (Eriogunum fasciculatum), chaparral broom (Baccharis sarathroides), isocoma (Haplopappus venetus), San Diego marsh elder (Iva hayesiana), Palmer's mugwort (Artemisia palmeri), and jimsonweed (Datura meteloides). |
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