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| Common Name |
Latin Name |
Type |
Usual Height X Width |
Ornamental Value |
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Autumn Sage |
Salvia greggi |
S |
3 feet X 3 feet |
Red flowers, aromatic |
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Azure Penstemon |
Penstemon
azureus |
P |
2 feet X 2 feet |
Blue-purple flowers in mid-summer |
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Baccharifolius Beardtongue |
Penstemon baccharifolius |
P |
2 feet X 2 feet |
Red trumpet shaped flowers
June through September |
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Baja Fairy Duster |
Calliandra californica |
S |
3 feet X 4 feet |
Bright red blooms February
to May, again in fall |
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Big Berry
Manzanita |
Arctostaphylos glauca |
S |
10 feet X 6 feet |
White to pink flowers |
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Bisbee Peak
Rushrose |
Helianthemum scoparium |
P |
1 foot X 2 feet |
Yellow flowers March through July |
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Blackfoot Daisy |
Melampodium leucanthum |
P |
6 inches X one foot |
White one inch daisies |
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Bladderpod |
Isomeris arborea |
S |
4 feet X 5 feet |
Yellow flowers almost all year |
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Blue Sage |
Salvia pachyphylla |
S |
2 feet X 2 feet |
Two-tone red and purple large flowers, evergreen
grey-green leaves |
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Bovardia |
Bouvardia
ternifolia |
S |
4 feet X 3 feet |
Showy red trumpet shaped
flowers May through November |
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Brittle Bush |
Encelia farinosa |
S |
3 feet X 3 feet |
Yellow flowers blooming all spring |
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Bush Beardtongue |
Keckiella breviflora |
P |
5 feet X 5 feet |
White flowers line with
purple, pink, or red streaks in spring and fall, fragrant |
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Butterfly
Milkweed |
Asclepias tuberosa |
p |
2 feet |
Bright red or orange flower in mid-summer followed by
attractive pods in fall |
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California
Fucshia |
Zauschneria californica |
P |
3 feet X 5 feet |
Red flowers from mid-spring
to early winter |
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California Prickly Phlox |
Leptodactylon californicum |
S |
3 feet X 3 feet |
Pink/violet/lavender flowers
late winter to mid-spring |
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Cascalote Tree |
Caesalpinia cacalaco |
T |
12 feet X 12 feet |
Light yellow flowers most of
winter, attractive copper pods |
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Century Plant |
Agave americana |
Y |
7 feet X 12 feet |
Evergreen, yellow flower
once at about 10 years or more (monocarpic), stalk 15 to 30 feet high |
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Chuparosa |
Justicia californica |
S |
4 feet X 8 feet |
Long tubular red flowers from May through fall,
deciduous |
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Claret Cup
Cactus |
Echinocereus triglochidiatus |
CS |
1 X 4 feet |
Showy scarlet to wine flowers in spring or early summer |
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Cleveland Sage |
Salvia clevelandii |
S |
4 feet X 4 feet |
Purple trumpet shaped flowers, evergreen |
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Coral Bean |
Erythrina flabelliformis |
T |
10mfeet X 8 feet |
Long bright red flowers in
racemes near end of branches in June followed by foot long gold and
brown pods |
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Desert Agave |
Agave deserti |
CS |
3 feet X 3 feet |
Yellow flowers |
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Desert
Bird of Paradise |
Caesalpinia
gilliesii |
S |
4 feet X 4 feet |
Showy red and yellow flowers mainly in spring and
summer, sporadically after that |
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Desert Bluebells |
Phacelia campanularia |
A |
To 2 feet |
Royal blue one inch flowers in spring
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Desert Lavender |
Hyptis emoryi |
S |
8 feet X 8 feet |
Lavender flowers, minty fragrance in spring |
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Desert Penstemon,
Desert Beardtongue |
Penstemon
pseudospectabilis |
p |
2 feet X 2 feet |
Showy magenta (pink-purple) flowers in mid-summer |
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Desert Spoon, Sotol,
Desert Candle |
Dasylirion wheeleri |
S |
5 feet X 4 feet |
Yellow flowers on 15 to 20 foot stalks, silver to green
evergreen leaves |
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Desert Willow |
Chilopsis linearis |
T |
12 feet X 15 feet |
Trumpet shaped flowers 2 to 3 inches long in white to
rose to purple, often two toned |
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Eaton's
Penstemon, Scarlet Bugler |
Penstemon eatoni |
P |
3 feet X 2 feet |
Showy red flowers in spring |
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Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus |
Echinocereus engelmannii |
C |
2 feet X 2 feet |
Flowers used by hummingbirds and butterflies, fruits
eaten by songbirds, game birds, and other mammals |
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Fairy Duster, Pink
Fairy Duster, Mock Mesquite |
Calliandra eriophylla |
S |
4 feet X 4 feet |
Silver-green leaves, fragrant |
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Foothill
Penstemon, Purdy's Penstemon |
Penstemon heterophyllus |
P |
2 feet X 1 foot |
Showy violet flowers in spring |
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Fishhook
Barrel Cactus |
Ferocactus cylindraceus |
CS |
4 feet X 1 foot |
Yellow flowers in early summer, yellow fruit |
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Fragrant Evening Primrose |
Neriserenia camporum |
P |
8 inches X one foot |
White to pale pink flowers in spring |
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Grinnell's
Penstemon |
Penstemon grinnellii |
P |
2 feet X 2 feet |
Showy pink flowers in spring |
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Hairy-leaf
Ceanothus |
Ceanothus oliganthus oliganthus |
S |
6 feet X 6 feet |
Whitish to blue to purple flowers in spring |
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New Mexico Agave |
Agave neomexicana |
CS |
2 X 2 feet |
Evergreen, yellow flower once in spring |
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Ocotillo, Candlewood |
Fouquiera splendens |
S |
12 feet X 8 feet |
Red to orange flowers after rain |
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Orange
Bush Monkeyflower |
Diplacus aurantiacus |
S |
3 feet X 3 feet |
One inch yellow to orange to scarlet flowers in spring,
dormant in summer in desert |
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Palmer's
Penstemon, Balloon Flower |
Penstemon palmeri |
P |
2 feet X 1 foot |
Showy pink flowers in spring, aromatic |
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Parry's
Penstemon |
Penstemon parryi |
P |
3 feet X 2 feet |
Rose-pink flowers in spring |
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Pineleaf
Penstemon, Pineneedle Beardtongue |
Penstemon pinifolius |
P |
1 foot X 1 foot |
Showy red flowers in late spring, summer |
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Pink
California Fucia |
Zauschneria californica Pink |
S |
2 feet |
Pink flowers spring through fall |
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Pointleaf
Manzanita |
Arctostaphylos pungens |
S |
6 feet X 6 feet |
White to pink flowers in late winter to spring, red
berries in summer |
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Redberry |
Rhamnus crocea |
T |
12 feet X 9 feet |
White flowers in March and
April, followed by showy red berries, tree looks like scrub oak |
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Red Thistle |
Cirsium proteanum or
occidentale |
P |
6 feet X 1 foot |
Red flowers in spring, dies
after it produces |
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Red Yucca |
Hesperaloe parviflora |
S |
3 feet X 3 feet |
Evergreen, red flowers
March through July |
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Roundflower Catclaw |
Acacia romeriana |
T |
10 feet X 15 feet |
White fluffy balls of fragrant white flowers, pinkish
flat beans |
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Royal Penstemon,
Showy Penstemon |
Penstemon spectabilis |
P |
3 feet X 2 feet |
Purple-blue flowers in spring |
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Scarlet Bugler |
Penstemon centranthifolius |
P |
1 foot X 2 feet |
Showy red flowers in spring |
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Scarlet
Keckiella |
Keckiella ternata |
P |
3 feet X 3 feet |
Red flowers spring to summer |
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Snapdragon
Penstemon |
Keckiella breviflora |
P |
3 feet X 3 feet |
Wonderfully fragrant,
bright yellow flowers and elegant foliage |
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Southern
Honeysuckle |
Lonicera subspicata denudata |
S |
8 feet and spreading |
White to yellow flowers spring to summer, climbing |
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Spinystar
Cactus, Beehive Cactus |
Coryphantha (Escobaria)
vivipara |
C |
1 foot X 1 foot |
Showy pink to purple flowers in spring or early summer |
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Standing Cypress |
Ipomopsis rubra |
P |
6 feet X 2 feet |
Red, orange, or yellow
trumpet shaped flowers May through July (biennial) |
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Strawberry
Cactus, Fishhook Cactus |
Mammillaria dioica |
C |
1 foot X 6 inches |
White to pink flowers, scarlet fruit |
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Sticky Monkeyflower |
Mimulus aurantiacus |
P |
3 feet X 3 feet |
White to orange to red
flowers mid-spring to early summer |
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Summer Holly |
Comarostaphylis diversifolia |
T |
18 feet X 15 feet |
White cup shaped flowers May
and June followed by edible red berries |
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Teddybear Cholla |
Opuntia bigelovii |
C |
4 feet X 4 feet |
Green-yellow to white flowers in spring, green or yellow
fruit |
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Tree Poppy |
Dendromecon rigida |
S |
8 feet X 6 feet |
Profuse bright yellow poppy
flowers spring through fall |
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White Sage, Bee Sage |
Salvia apiana |
S |
3 feet X 3 feet |
White flowers, grey leaves, aromatic |
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Wooly Bluecurls |
Trichostema lanatum |
S |
4 feet X 4 feet |
Blue-pink flowers in spring and fall, fragrant |