Org M ost people think of Los Angeles as a city in the desert. Much of it was originally coastal sage scrub, and gets 12 inches of rain a year, not less than 10 as a desert does. A good portion of it was once even a tangled, swampy oak-forest with only a few trails running through it. This is coastal sage scrub . True desert is never as green, and always has more space between individual plants.
Deserts also have different species of plants from coastal sage scrub.
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