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 499 of these.
The 30 most-observed are listed here — see all 499 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)
- Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)
- Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
- Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
- American Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis)
- California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum)
- Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens)
- Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- Pink Evening Primrose (Oenothera speciosa)
- Blue Dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum)
- Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
- Brittlebush (Encelia farinosa)
- Sacred Datura (Datura wrightii)
- Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
- Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
- Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)
- Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
- Ebony Spleenwort (Asplenium platyneuron)
- Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)
- Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
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