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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 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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| Common Name ↑ ↓ | Botanical Name ↑ ↓ | Form ↑ ↓ | Purpose | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Parry agave | Agave parryi var. parryi | Succulent/semisucculent |   |
| | Octopus agave | Agave vilmoriniana | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Flame bush | Anisacanthus quadrifidus | Medium shrub | |
| | Pink queen's wreath | Antigonon leptopus | Vine |   |
| | Red bird-of-paradise | Caesalpinia pulcherrima | Medium shrub |  |
| | Baja fairy duster | Calliandra californica | Medium shrub | |
| | bat-faced cuphea | Cuphea llavea | Small shrub | |
| | Southwest coral bean | Erythrina flabelliformis | Medium shrub | |
 | | Baja snapdragon | Gambelia juncea | Medium shrub | |
| | Siskiyou pink | Gaura lindheimeri - rose | Perennial | |
| | Texas firecracker bush | Hamelia patens | Medium shrub | |
| | Giant hesperaloe | Hesperaloe funifera | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Night-blooming hesperaloe | Hesperaloe nocturna | Succulent/semisucculent |  |
| | Red Yucca | Hesperaloe parviflora | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Desert lavender | Hyptis emoryi | Large shrub | |
| | Chuparosa | Justicia californica | Medium shrub | |
| | Red jacobinia | Justicia candicans | Small shrub | |
| | Confiturilla | Lagascea decipiens | Medium shrub | |
| | Snake cactus | Morengaya pensilis | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Hummingbird nopal | Nopalaea karwinskiana | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Firecracker penstemon | Penstemon eatoni | Perennial | |
| | Palmers penstemon | Penstemon palmeri | Subshrub | |
| | Parry penstemon | Penstemon parryi | Perennial | |
| | Canyon penstemon | Penstemon pseudospectabilis | Perennial | |
| | Superb penstemon | Penstemon superbus | Perennial | |
| | Longneck ruel | Ruellia nudiflora | Perennial | |
| | Desert ruellia | Ruellia peninsularis | Medium shrub | |
| | Chaparral sage | Salvia clevelandii | Medium shrub | |
| | Darcy's Mexican sage | Salvia darcyii | Medium shrub | |
| | autumn sage | Salvia greggii | Small shrub | |
| | Mexican bush sage | Salvia leucantha | Small shrub | |
| | Texas betony | Stachys coccinea | Perennial | |
| | Yellow bells | Tecoma stans | Large shrub | |
| | Sonoran air plant | Tillandsia exserta | Perennial | |
| Common Name ↑ ↓ | Botanical Name ↑ ↓ | Form ↑ ↓ | Purpose |
