Northern coastal scrub is a scrubland plant community of California and Oregon. It occurs along the Pacific Coast from Point Sur in Monterey County in Central California to southern Oregon. It frequently forms a landscape mosaic with coastal prairie. The predominant plants are low evergreen shrubs and herbs. Characteristic shrubs include Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis), California Yerba Santa (Eriodictyon californicum), Coast silk-tassel (Garrya elliptica), Salal (Gaultheria shallon), and Yellow Bush Lupine (Lupinus arboreus). Herbaceous species include Western Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium bellum), Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana), and grasses.