Arizona native plants
Arizona spans Sonoran desert floor to ponderosa pine at 7,000 feet, so "native to Arizona" covers wildly different gardens. The desert species here are adapted to summer monsoon rain and intense drought between — planting them in rich, regularly watered soil is the usual way to kill them.
Bedfellow lists 523 of these.
The 30 most-observed are listed here — see all 523 in search.
- Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata)
- Tufted Evening Primrose (Oenothera caespitosa)
- False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosum)
- California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
- Boxelder (Acer negundo)
- Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
- Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
- Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
- Black Cherry (Prunus serotina)
- Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella)
- California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum)
- Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)
- Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
- Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
- American Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis)
- Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens)
- Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
- Pink Evening Primrose (Oenothera speciosa)
- Blue Dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum)
- Indian Hemp (Apocynum cannabinum)
- Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
- Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
- Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnifera)
- Brittlebush (Encelia farinosa)
- Sacred Datura (Datura wrightii)
- Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
- Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)
- Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
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- Milkweeds: monarch host plants
- Native plants for hummingbirds
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- Native groundcover plants
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