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 to perform a Google search for images and information on many of these plants.
Select the 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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![]() | ![]() | Yellow chuparosa | Justicia californica | Medium shrub | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Yellow bells | Tecoma stans | Large shrub | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | White spurge | Euphorbia xantii | Succulent/semisucculent | ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Texas olive | Cordia boisieri | Tree | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Texas firecracker bush | Hamelia patens | Medium shrub | ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Texas betony | Stachys coccinea | Perennial | ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Superb penstemon | Penstemon superbus | Perennial | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Siskiyou pink | Gaura lindheimeri | Perennial | ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Scented penstemon | Penstemon palmeri | Perennial | ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Scarlet red Salvia | Salvia microphylla | Small shrub | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Scarlet Flame Passion Vine | Passiflora × "Scarlet Flame" | Vine | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Red snapdragon vine | Maurandya antirrhyniflora | Vine | ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Red queen's wreath | Antigonon leptopus | Vine | ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Red jacobinia | Justicia candicans | Small shrub | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Red hesperaloe | Hesperaloe parviflora | Succulent/semisucculent | ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Red autumn sage | Salvia greggii | Small shrub | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Parry penstemon | Penstemon parryi | Perennial | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Parry agave | Agave parryi | Succulent/semisucculent | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Mexican Honeysuckle | Justicia spicigera | Small shrub | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Mexican bush sage | Salvia leucantha | Small shrub | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Lavender spice | Poliomintha madrensis | Small shrub | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Hummingbird nopal | Nopalea karwinskiana | Succulent/semisucculent | ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Flame bush | Anisacanthus quadrifidus | Medium shrub | ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Firecracker penstemon | Penstemon eatonii | Perennial | ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Fairy duster | Calliandra eriophylla | Small shrub | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Desert ruellia | Ruellia peninsularis | Medium shrub | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Desert lavender (emoryi) | Hyptis albida | Large shrub | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Desert honeysuckle | Anisacanthus thurberi | Medium shrub | ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Desert fuschia (Zauschneria) | Epilobium canum | Perennial | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | Bat faced cuphea | Cuphea llavea | Small shrub | ![]() |
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