Plant Care Sheets
The Desert Museum's Annual Plant Sale is held at the end of September. The list below displays the plants from the most recent sale.
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to perform a Google search for images and information on many of these plants.
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to view the Plant Care Sheet. These sheets have been compiled by the Desert Museum Botany Department. In some cases, plant care information from Mountain States Wholesale Nursery has been used to supplement the museum's own knowledge base.
| Common Name ↑ ↓ | Botanical Name ↑ ↓ | Form ↑ ↓ | Purpose | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Pintapán cimarrón | Abutilon mollicomum | Perennial |    |
| | Palmer Indian mallow | Abutilon palmeri | Small shrub | |
| | Yarrow | Achillea millefolium | Ground cover |  |
 | | Sonoran giant hyssop | Agastache wrightii | Small shrub | |
| | Hohokam agave | Agave murpheyi | Succulent/semisucculent |  |
| | Palmer agave | Agave palmeri | Succulent/semisucculent |  |
| | Parry agave | Agave parryi var. parryi | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Agave sp. | Agave sp. | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Bee brush | Aloysia gratissima | Medium shrub | |
| | Sonoran bursage | Ambrosia cordifolia | Small shrub | |
| | Triangleleaf bursage | Ambrosia deltoidea | Small shrub | |
| | False indigo bush | Amorpha fruticosa | Shrub | |
| | Yerba mansa | Anemopsis californica | Ground cover | |
| | Flame bush | Anisacanthus quadrifidus | Medium shrub | |
| | Desert honeysuckle | Anisacanthus thurberi | Medium shrub | |
| | White-veined Dutchman's pipe | Aristolochia fimbriata | Vining groundcover | |
| | Southwestern pipevine | Aristolochia watsonii | Vining groundcover | |
| | Prarie sagewort | Artemisia frigida | Groundcover | |
| | Sage | Artemisia ludoviciana | Perennial | |
| | Narrow-leaf milkweed | Asclepias angustifolia | Small shrub | |
| | Pine-leaf milkweed | Asclepias linaria | Small shrub | |
| | Desert milkweed | Asclepias subulata | Small shrub | |
| | Quail bush | Atriplex lentiformis | Large shrub | |
| | Desert marigold | Baileya multiradiata | Perennial | |
| | Pata de cabra | Bauhinia pringlii | Large bush/small tree | |
| | Chocolate flower | Berlandiera lyrata | Perennial | |
| | Croosvine | Bignonia capreolata | Large vine | |
| | Side-oats grama | Bouteloua curtipendula | Grass | |
| | Firecracker bush | Bouvardia turnifolia | Small shrub | |
| | Butterfly bush | Buddleja marrubiifolia | Medium shrub | |
| | Torote | Bursera filicifolia | Medium shrub | |
| | Mexican bird-of-paradise | Caesalpinia mexicana | Large shrub | |
| | Red bird-of-paradise | Caesalpinia pulcherrima | Medium shrub | |
| | Palo piojo | Caesalpinia pumila | Medium shrub | |
| | Yellow orchid vine | Callaeum macropterum | Vine | |
| | Baja fairy duster | Calliandra californica | Medium shrub | |
| | Fairy duster | Calliandra eriophylla | Small shrub | |
| | Sundrop | Calylophus drummondianus | Medium shrub | |
| | Yellow evening primrose | Calylophus hartwegii | Ground cover | |
| | Chiltepin | Capsicum annuum (wild type) | Small shrub | |
| | Button bush | Cephalanthus occidentalis | Large shrub | |
| | Cerocarpus ledifolius var. intricatus | |||
| | Mexican orange | Choisya dumosa var arizonica | Small shrub | |
| | Fragrant mist flower | Chromolaena odorata | Medium shrub | |
| | Boneset | Chromolaena sagittata | Medium shrub | |
| | Damianita | Chrysactinia mexicana | Small shrub | |
| | Mist flower | Conoclinium (Eupatorium) dissectum | Perennial | |
| | Little-leaf cordia | Cordia parvifolia | Large shrub | |
| | Uruquenia | Croton ciliato-glandulifer | Small shrub | |
| | Bat faced cuphea | Cuphea lavea | Small shrub | |
| | 'Goodwin Homestead' heritage quince | Cydonia oblonga | Small tree | |
| | Jumping cholla | Cylindropuntia fulgida var. mamillata | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Silver dalea | Dalea bicolor | Large shrub | |
| | Trailing yellow dalea | Dalea capitata | Small shrub | |
| | Toothless sotol | Dasylirion longissimum | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Desert spoon | Dasylirion wheeleri | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Arizona foldwing | Dicliptera resupinata | Perennial | |
| | Hopbush | Dodonaea viscosa | Large shrub | |
| | Cat claw vine | Dolichandra unguis-cati | Vine | |
| | Brittlebush | Encelia farinosa | Medium shrub | |
| | Desert fuschia | Epilobium (Zauschneria) canum | Perennial | |
| | Aguirre™ turpentine bush | Ericameria laricifolia | Small shrub | |
| | Rabbit brush | Ericameria nauseosus | Medium shrub | |
| | Flattop buckwheat | Eriogonum fasciculatum | Small shrub | |
| | Wax spurge | Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Zipehui | Euphorbia californica | Medium shrub | |
| | White spurge | Euphorbia xanti | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Apache plume | Falugia paradoxa | Medium shrub | |
| | Pineapple Guava | Feijoa sellowiana | Large shrub | |
| | 'Sosa Carrillo' heritage fig | Ficus carica | Medium tree | |
| | Rock fig | Ficus petiolaris var palmeri | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Ocotillo | Fouquieria splendens | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | 'Arizona Sun' blanket flower | Gaillardia species | Perennial | |
| | Slender Goldshower | Galphimia gracilis | ||
| | Wright silktassel | Garrya wrightii | Medium shrub | |
| | Siskiyou pink | Gaura lindheimeri | Perennial | |
| | Goodding verbena | Glandularia gooddingii | Perennial | |
| | Airy bachelor's buttons | Gomphrena decumbens | Small shrub | |
| | Wild cotton | Gossypium davidsonii | Medium shrub | |
| | Wild cotton | Gossypium thurberi | Medium shrub | |
| | Wild Cotton | Gossypium turneri | Medium shrub | |
| | Papalotillo | Guardiola platyphylla | Perennial | |
| | Texas firecracker bush | Hamelia patens | Medium shrub | |
| | Maximilian sunflower | Helianthus maximiliani | Medium shrub | |
| | Giant Hesperaloe | Hesperaloe funifera | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Pink Parade® | Hesperaloe hybrid | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Night-blooming hesperaloe | Hesperaloe nocturna | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Sonoran spider lily | Hymenocallis sonorae | Perennial | |
| | Desert lavender | Hyptis albida (emoryi) | Large shrub | |
| | Yellow chuparosa | Justicia californica | Medium shrub | |
| | Red jacobinia | Justicia candicans | Small shrub | |
| | Sonoran honeysuckle | Justicia sonorae | Perennial | |
| | Mexican Honeysuckle | Justicia spicigera | Small shrub | |
| | Winter-fat | krascheninnikovia lanata | Small shrub | |
| | Confiturilla grande | Lagascea decipiens | Medium shrub | |
| | Purple trailing lantana | Lantana montevidensis | Ground cover | |
| | Creosotebush | Larrea tridentata | Large shrub | |
| | San Pedro daisy | Lasianthea podocephala | Subshrub | |
| | Texas ranger | Leucophyllum frutescens | Large shrub | |
| | Cardinal flower | Lobelia cardinalis | Small shrub | |
| | Sierra madre lobelia | Lobelia laxiflora | Small shrub | |
| | Pams pink honeysuckle | Lonicera "pams pink" | Vine | |
| | Anderson Wolfberry | Lycium andersonii | Medium shrub | |
| | Red Turk's cap | Malvaviscus arborea | Medium shrub | |
| | Mangle Dulce | Maytenus phyllanthoides | Small shrub | |
| | Blackfoot daisy | Melampodium leucanthum | Small shrub | |
| | Pyramid bush | Melochia tomentosa | Small shrub | |
| | Bull grass | Muhlenbergia emersleyi | Grass | |
| | Deer grass | Muhlenbergia rigens | Grass | |
| | Beargrass | Nolina microcarpa | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Tufted evening primrose | Oenothera caespitosa | Perennial | |
| | Mexican Evening Primrose | Oenothera speciosa | Perennial | |
| | Mariola | Parthenium incanum | Small shrub | |
| | Virginia creeper | Parthenocissus inserta | Vine | |
| | Passion fruit | Passiflora arida | Vine | |
| | 'Incense' passion vine | Passiflora incarnata× P. cincinnata | Vine | |
| | slipper plant | Pedilanthus macrocarpus | ||
| | Firecracker penstemon | Penstemon eatoni | Perennial | |
| | Parry penstemon | Penstemon parryi | Perennial | |
| | Canyon penstemon | Penstemon pseudospectabilis | Perennial | |
| | Superb penstemon | Penstemon superbus | Perennial | |
| | Arrowweed | Pluchea sericea | Large shrub | |
| | Summer Snow™ plumbago | Plumbago zeylandica | Small shrub | |
| | Lavender spice | Poliomintha maderensis | Small shrub | |
| | Smoke tree | Psorothamnus spinosus | Tree | |
| | 'Garcia Camp' heritage pomagranate | Punica granatum | Small tree | |
| | ' Sosa Carillo' heritage pomegranate | Punica granatum Sosa Carrillo | Tree | |
| | Cliffrose | Purshia stansburyana | Medium shrub | |
| | Prairie coneflower | Ratibida columnifera | Perennial | |
| | Longneck ruel | Ruellia nudiflora | Perennial | |
| | Desert ruellia | Ruellia peninsularis | Medium shrub | |
| | White sage | Salvia apiana | Medium shrub | |
| | Germander sage | Salvia chamaedrioides | Small shrub | |
| | Chaparral sage | Salvia clevelandii | Medium shrub | |
| | Galaena red sage | Salvia darcyi | Perennial | |
| | Red autumn sage | Salvia greggii | Small shrub | |
| | Pozo Blue sage | Salvia hybrid | | |
| | S. Mohavensis/Dorii/Cleveland | Salvia hybrid "trident" | ||
| | Lemmon sage | Salvia lemmonii | Small shrub | |
| | Mexican bush sage | Salvia leucantha | Small shrub | |
| | Salvia 'Pozo Blue' | Salvia leucophylla × S. clevelandii | Medium shrub | |
| | Grape-scented sage | Salvia melissodora | Small shrub | |
| | elderberry | Sambucus mexicana | | |
| | Starrfire red skullcap | Scutellaria hybrid | Perennial | |
| | Pink skullcap | Scutellaria suffrutescens | Perennial | |
| | desert senna | Senna covesii | ||
| | Palo prieto | Senna polyantha | Large shrub | |
| | Sonoran nightshade | Solanum hindsianum | Medium shrub | |
| | Ojo de liebre | Solanum houstonii | Medium shrub | |
| | Desert globe mallow | Sphaeralcea ambigua | Small shrub | |
| | Fendler globe mallow | Sphaeralcea fendleri | Medium shrub | |
| | Caliche globe mallow | Sphaeralcea laxa | Small shrub | |
| | Giant sacaton | Sporobolus wrightii | ||
| | Day-of-the-dead flower | Symphiotrichum lanceolatum | Perennial | |
| | Mountain marigold | Tagetes lemmonii | Small shrub | |
| | Mexican tarragon | Tagetes lucida | Small shrub | |
| | Orange bells | Tecoma garocha | Large shrub | |
| | Yellow bells | Tecoma stans | Large shrub | |
| | Angelita daisy | Tetraneuris (Hymenoxys) acaulis | Small shrub | |
| | Golden fleece | Thymophylla pentachaeta | Perennial | |
| | Tree marigold | Tithonia diversifolia | Large shrub | |
| | viscid acacia | Vachellia vernicosa | Large shrub | |
| | Arizona rosewood | Vauquelinia californica | Large shrub | |
| | Felger crownbeard | Verbesina felgeri | Small shrub | |
| | Parish Goldeneye | Viguiera deltoidea var. parishii | Small shrub | |
| | Skeleton-leaf goldeneye | Viguieria stenoloba | Medium shrub | |
| | Banana Yucca | Yucca baccata baccata | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Soaptree yucca | Yucca elata | | |
| | Texas creeping oxeye | zexmenia hispida (wedelia acapulcensis) | Small shrub | |
| | Little Golden Zinnia | Zinnia grandiflora | Small shrub | |
| Common Name ↑ ↓ | Botanical Name ↑ ↓ | Form ↑ ↓ | Purpose |