The California Floristic ProvinceThe California Floristic Province is a zone of Mediterranean-type climate and has thehigh levels of plant endemism characteristic of these regions. The hotspot is home tothe giant sequoia, the planet's largest living organism and its taller but less massiverelative, the coastal redwood.This region also holds a number of threatened endemic species such as the giantkangaroo rat and the desert slender salamander, and some of the last individuals