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.

Select the Camera icon to perform a Google search for images and information on many of these plants.

Select the Caresheet icon 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.

Butterfly Gardens Butterfly Gardens
Spring Flowers
Tucson Revegetation < 4500'
Hummingbird Gardens Hummingbird Gardens
Summer Flowers
Takes Light Shade
Tortoise Food Tortoise Food
Fall Flowers
Hardy 15° to 22°F
Bee Gardens Bees
Winter Flowers
Patio Pots
Bat Gardens Bats
Bird Cover/Food
Moth Gardens
Ethnobotany Ethnobotany
Common Name Botanical Name Form Purpose
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon ZipehuiEuphorbia californicaSmall shrub
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Yellow orchid vineCallaeum macropterumVine Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Yellow bellsTecoma stansLarge shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Wright silktasselGarrya wrightiiMedium shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon WolfberryLycium brevipesLarge shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon wild cottonGossypium thurberiSmall tree Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Violet prickly pearOpuntia gosselinianaSucculent/semisucculent
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon velvet-pod mimosaMimosa dysocarpa Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Velvet mesquiteProsopis velutinaTree Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Velvet leaf sennaSenna lindheimerianaSmall shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Various cultivarsCapsicum annuumMedium shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Valeriana del MonteDyschoriste hirsutissimaSubshrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Turpentine bushEricameria laricifolia Medium shrub Butterfly Gardens
 Camera icon Tuna coloradaOpuntia stenopetalaSucculent/semisucculent Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Triangleleaf bursageAmbrosia deltoideaSmall shrub Tortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon trans-pecos false acaciaVachellia vernicosaLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Totempole cactusLophocereus schottii fa. monstrosusSucculent/semisucculent Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon TexasplumeBauhinia lunaroidesLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Texas firecracker bushHamelia patens Medium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Texas betonyStachys coccineaPerennial Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
 Camera icon TacingaTacinga inamoena Marlon's dwarfSmall cactus BeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Swizzle sticksSenecio anteuphobiumSucculent/semisucculent Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Superb penstemonPenstemon superbusPerennial Butterfly GardensHummingbird Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Summer Snow™ plumbagoPlumbago scandens Small shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Southwest coral beanErythrina flabelliformisMedium shrub Hummingbird Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Sosa Carrillo heritage figFicus caricaMedium tree BeesEthnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Sonoran nightshadeSolanum hindsianum Large shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Sonoran air plantTillandsia exsertaPerennial Hummingbird Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Snake cactusMorengaya pensilisSucculent/semisucculent Hummingbird Gardens
 Camera icon Smooth Desert SpoonDasylirion longissimaSucculent/semisucculent Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Skeleton-leaf goldeneyeViguieria stenolobaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensBeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Siskiyou pinkGaura lindheimeri - rosePerennial Butterfly GardensHummingbird Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Seep willowBaccharis salicifoliaLarge shrub Butterfly Gardens
 Camera icon SantaCatalina BurstwortHermannia paucifloraSubshrub
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon santa maria barrelFerocactus santa-mariaSucculent/semisucculent Ethnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon sangrengadoJatropha cuneataLarge shrub Bees
 Camera icon RockdaisyPerityle emoriAnnual subshrub Tortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Rock figFicus petiolarisSucculent/semisucculent BeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Red YuccaHesperaloe parvifloraSucculent/semisucculent Hummingbird Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Red jacobiniaJusticia candicansSmall shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Red bird-of-paradiseCaesalpinia pulcherrimaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBeesEthnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Quail bushAtriplex lentiformisLarge shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Pyramid bushMelochia tomentosa Small shrub Butterfly Gardens
 Camera icon Purple Three-awnAristida purpureaGrass BeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Purple bush bean Macroptilium atropurpureumVine Butterfly GardensBees
 Camera icon Prickly pearOpuntia bravoanaSucculent/semisucculent Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Pink queen's wreathAntigonon leptopusVine Hummingbird GardensTortoise FoodEthnobotany
 Camera icon Pata de CabraBauhinia pringliiLarge shrub/ small tree BeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Passion fruitPassiflora aridaVine Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Parry penstemonPenstemon parryiPerennial Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Parry agaveAgave parryi var. parryiSucculent/semisucculent Hummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon PapalotilloGuardiola platyphyllaPerennial Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Palmers penstemonPenstemon palmeriSubshrub Hummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Palmer Indian mallowAbutilon palmeriSmall shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Old Mexico prickly pearOpuntia gomei 'Old Mexico'Succulent/semisucculent Ethnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Octopus agaveAgave vilmorinianaSucculent/semisucculent Hummingbird GardensBees
 Camera icon Not knownLippia formosaSmall tree Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Night-blooming hesperaloeHesperaloe nocturnaSucculent/semisucculent Hummingbird GardensBatsEthnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Narrow-leaf milkweedAsclepias angustifoliaSmall shrub
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon morning glory vineMerremia dissectaVine Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Milfoil prickle-freeMariosousa millefoliaLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Mexican bush sageSalvia leucanthaSmall shrub Hummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon MariolaParthenium incanumSmall shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Longneck ruelRuellia nudifloraPerennial Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensEthnobotany
 Camera icon Littleleaf sumacRhus microphyllaMedium shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon KidneywoodEysenhardrtia OrthocarpaSmall Tree Butterfly Gardens
 Camera icon Kearney's sumacRhus kearneyiMedium shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon JojobaSimmondsia chinensisLarge shrub
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Hummingbird nopalNopalaea karwinskianaSucculent/semisucculent Hummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon HopbushDodonaea viscosaLarge shrub Bees
 Camera icon hofmeisteriaHofmeisteria crassifoliaSubshrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon HechoPachycereus pecten-arboriginumSucculent/semisucculent
 Camera icon Habanero and othersCapsicum chinenseMedium shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon GuerequeIbervillea sonoraeVine Bees
 Camera icon GuayuleParthenium argentatumSmall shrub
 Camera icon Green desert spoonDasylirion acrotrichumSucculent/semisucculent Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Goodding verbenaGlandularia gooddingiiPerennial Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Glory of TexasThelocactus bicolorSucculent/semisucculent Bees
 Camera icon Giant hesperaloeHesperaloe funiferaSucculent/semisucculent Hummingbird GardensTortoise FoodEthnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Frog fruitPhyla nodifloraGround cover Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Fragrant mist flowerChromolaena odorataMedium shrub Butterfly GardensBeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Floriferous desert willowChilopsis linearisMedium tree
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Flattop buckwheatEriogonum fasciculatumSmall shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Flame bushAnisacanthus quadrifidusMedium shrub Hummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Firecracker penstemonPenstemon eatoniPerennial Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Feather treeLysiloma divericatumSmall tree
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon False-indigo bushAmorpha fruticosaLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBatsTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Emory BarrelFerocactus emoryiSucculent/semisucculent
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Elephant treeBursera microphyllaMedium shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Drummond's clematisClematis drummondiiVine Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon DogweedThymophylla pentachaetaSmall shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Diamond chollaCylindropuntia ramosissimaSucculent/semisucculent Ethnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert zinniaZinnia acerosaSubshrub Butterfly GardensBeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert spoonDasylirion wheeleriSucculent/semisucculent Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert ruelliaRuellia peninsularisMedium shrub Hummingbird Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert milkweedAsclepias subulataSmall shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert marigoldBaileya multiradiataPerennial Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert mallowSphaeralcea ambigua Small shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert lavenderHyptis emoryiLarge shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert ironwood treeOlneya tesotaTree Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert hackberryCeltis pallidaLarge shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert bird of paradiseCaesalpinia mexicanaLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Deer grassMuhlenbergia rigensGrass Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Day-of-the-dead flowerSymphiotrichum lanceolatumPerennial Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Darcy's Mexican sageSalvia darcyiiMedium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon DamianitaChrysactinia mexicanaSmall shrub Butterfly GardensTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon CreosotebushLarrea tridentataLarge shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Cowhorn agaveAgave bovicornuta Succulent/semisucculent
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon ConfiturillaLagascea decipiensMedium shrub Hummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon ChuparosaJusticia californicaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
 Camera icon Christmas Chollacylindropuntia leptocaulis Succulent/semisucculent Ethnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Chocolate flowerBerlandiera lyrataSubshrub/groundcover Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Chiltepin wild and cultivated varietiesCapsicum annuumMedium shrub Bees
 Camera icon Chihuahuan brickellbushBrickellia floribundaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Chaparral sageSalvia clevelandiiMedium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon ChapacolorStegnosperma halimifoliumLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBees
 Camera icon Chain-fruit chollaCilindropuntia fulgida Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Catclaw acaciaSenegalia greggiLarge shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Canyon penstemonPenstemon pseudospectabilisPerennial Hummingbird Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Butterfly milkweedAsclepias tuberosaSmall shrub Butterfly GardensEthnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Bush verbenaCitharexylum flabelliformisMedium shrub Butterfly GardensEthnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon burrobushAmbrosia dumosaSubshrub
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon BrittlebushEncelia farinosaMedium shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon BonesetChromolaena sagitattaSmall shrub/spreading Butterfly GardensBeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon blue palo verdeParkinsonia floridaTree Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon biznagaFerocactus latispinusSucculent/semisucculent
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Bee brushAloysia gratissimaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon BeargrassNolina microcarpaSucculent/semisucculent
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon bat-faced cupheaCuphea llaveaSmall shrub Hummingbird GardensBeesEthnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Bamboo muhlyMuhlenbergia dumosaGrass Bees
 Camera icon Baja snapdragonGambelia junceaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Baja sennaSenna polyanthaSmall shrub
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon baja ragweedAmbrosia bryantiiSmall shrub BeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Baja fairy dusterCalliandra californicaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Baja elephant treePachycormus discolorMedium shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon autumn sageSalvia greggiiSmall shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon ArrowweedPluchea serriceaLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Arizona ashFraxinus velutinaTree Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Angelita daisyTetraneuris (Hymenoxys) acaulisSmall shrub Butterfly GardensBees
 Camera icon Ahi Limon and othersCapsicum baccatumMedium shrub Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon 'Quitoboquito Springs' heritage pomegranatePunica granatum 'Quitoboquito'Large shrub/small tree Bees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon 'Garcia Camp' heritage pomegranatePunica granatum 'Garcia Camp'Large shrub/small tree
Common Name Botanical Name Form Purpose
Butterfly Gardens Butterfly Gardens
Spring Flowers
Tucson Revegetation < 4500'
Hummingbird Gardens Hummingbird Gardens
Summer Flowers
Takes Light Shade
Tortoise Food Tortoise Food
Fall Flowers
Hardy 15° to 22°F
Bee Gardens Bees
Winter Flowers
Patio Pots
Bat Gardens Bats
Bird Cover/Food
Moth Gardens
Ethnobotany Ethnobotany
Retrieved from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum web site on 11-21-2024
https://desertmuseum.org/plantcare/index.php?d=DESC&s=common_name