These areas are much drier than forest or most grassland, with cool winters and hot summers. They generally have shrubs and non-woody plants, but at most only scattered trees. Chaparral gets more winter rain or snow than desert, but both get little or none in the summer.
 Blue Copper Lycaena heteronea |
 Southern Dogface Colias cesonia |
 Siva Hairstreak Metoura siva |
 Yucca Skipper Megathymus yuccae |
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