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