Cold rock fringed with low, dry shrubs, larger stones.
The vegetation is of a semi-arid tropical type, with palmyra palms, dry shrubs and grasses that grow on the pale Grey porous coralline soil.
The district has a typical Mediterranean climate of hot, dry summers and warm, wet winters, and the natural vegetation is dry shrubs.
The dry thorny shrubs and herbs being the most abundant plant life.
In search of food, the elephants have destroyed the once lush woodlands, transforming the trees into dry, scattered shrubs.
They sat in silence then looking out to either side of the steeply tumbling rocks interspersed with dry, hard Mediterranean shrubs.
Three miles further east the valley narrowed and the floor pitched upward, dotted by dry shrubs and boulders.
The plant life of the marsh consists of grasses such as apluda and cenchrus species along with dry thorny shrubs.
The crags rose, tall, remote; the ground was barren of all but clumps of dry shrub.
An example habitat is the dry shrub and forest of La Campana National Park.