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.
| Common Name ↑ ↓ | Botanical Name ↑ ↓ | Form ↑ ↓ | Purpose | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 'Garcia Camp' heritage pomegranate | Punica granatum 'Garcia Camp' | Large shrub/small tree | |
| | 'Quitoboquito Springs' heritage pomegranate | Punica granatum 'Quitoboquito' | Large shrub/small tree |  |
 | | Ahi Limon and others | Capsicum baccatum | Medium shrub | |
| | Angelita daisy | Tetraneuris (Hymenoxys) acaulis | Small shrub |  |
| | Arizona ash | Fraxinus velutina | Tree | |
| | Arrowweed | Pluchea serricea | Large shrub |  |
| | autumn sage | Salvia greggii | Small shrub |  |
| | Baja elephant tree | Pachycormus discolor | Medium shrub | |
| | Baja fairy duster | Calliandra californica | Medium shrub | |
| | baja ragweed | Ambrosia bryantii | Small shrub | |
| | Baja senna | Senna polyantha | Small shrub | |
| | Baja snapdragon | Gambelia juncea | Medium shrub | |
| | Bamboo muhly | Muhlenbergia dumosa | Grass | |
| | bat-faced cuphea | Cuphea llavea | Small shrub |  |
| | Beargrass | Nolina microcarpa | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Bee brush | Aloysia gratissima | Medium shrub | |
| | biznaga | Ferocactus latispinus | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | blue palo verde | Parkinsonia florida | Tree | |
| | Boneset | Chromolaena sagitatta | Small shrub/spreading | |
| | Brittlebush | Encelia farinosa | Medium shrub | |
| | burrobush | Ambrosia dumosa | Subshrub | |
| | Bush verbena | Citharexylum flabelliformis | Medium shrub | |
| | Butterfly milkweed | Asclepias tuberosa | Small shrub | |
| | Canyon penstemon | Penstemon pseudospectabilis | Perennial | |
| | Catclaw acacia | Senegalia greggi | Large shrub | |
| | Chain-fruit cholla | Cilindropuntia fulgida | | |
| | Chapacolor | Stegnosperma halimifolium | Large shrub | |
| | Chaparral sage | Salvia clevelandii | Medium shrub | |
| | Chihuahuan brickellbush | Brickellia floribunda | Medium shrub | |
| | Chiltepin wild and cultivated varieties | Capsicum annuum | Medium shrub | |
| | Chocolate flower | Berlandiera lyrata | Subshrub/groundcover | |
| | Christmas Cholla | cylindropuntia leptocaulis | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Chuparosa | Justicia californica | Medium shrub | |
| | Confiturilla | Lagascea decipiens | Medium shrub | |
| | Cowhorn agave | Agave bovicornuta | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Creosotebush | Larrea tridentata | Large shrub | |
| | Damianita | Chrysactinia mexicana | Small shrub | |
| | Darcy's Mexican sage | Salvia darcyii | Medium shrub | |
| | Day-of-the-dead flower | Symphiotrichum lanceolatum | Perennial | |
| | Deer grass | Muhlenbergia rigens | Grass | |
| | Desert bird of paradise | Caesalpinia mexicana | Large shrub | |
| | Desert hackberry | Celtis pallida | Large shrub | |
| | Desert ironwood tree | Olneya tesota | Tree | |
| | Desert lavender | Hyptis emoryi | Large shrub | |
| | Desert mallow | Sphaeralcea ambigua | Small shrub | |
| | Desert marigold | Baileya multiradiata | Perennial | |
| | Desert milkweed | Asclepias subulata | Small shrub | |
| | Desert ruellia | Ruellia peninsularis | Medium shrub | |
| | Desert spoon | Dasylirion wheeleri | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Desert zinnia | Zinnia acerosa | Subshrub | |
| | Diamond cholla | Cylindropuntia ramosissima | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Dogweed | Thymophylla pentachaeta | Small shrub | |
| | Drummond's clematis | Clematis drummondii | Vine | |
| | Elephant tree | Bursera microphylla | Medium shrub | |
| | Emory Barrel | Ferocactus emoryi | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | False-indigo bush | Amorpha fruticosa | Large shrub |  |
| | Feather tree | Lysiloma divericatum | Small tree | |
| | Firecracker penstemon | Penstemon eatoni | Perennial | |
| | Flame bush | Anisacanthus quadrifidus | Medium shrub | |
| | Flattop buckwheat | Eriogonum fasciculatum | Small shrub | |
| | Floriferous desert willow | Chilopsis linearis | Medium tree | |
| | Fragrant mist flower | Chromolaena odorata | Medium shrub | |
| | Frog fruit | Phyla nodiflora | Ground cover | |
| | Giant hesperaloe | Hesperaloe funifera | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Glory of Texas | Thelocactus bicolor | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Goodding verbena | Glandularia gooddingii | Perennial | |
| | Green desert spoon | Dasylirion acrotrichum | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Guayule | Parthenium argentatum | Small shrub | |
| | Guereque | Ibervillea sonorae | Vine | |
| | Habanero and others | Capsicum chinense | Medium shrub | |
| | Hecho | Pachycereus pecten-arboriginum | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | hofmeisteria | Hofmeisteria crassifolia | Subshrub | |
| | Hopbush | Dodonaea viscosa | Large shrub | |
| | Hummingbird nopal | Nopalaea karwinskiana | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Jojoba | Simmondsia chinensis | Large shrub | |
| | Kearney's sumac | Rhus kearneyi | Medium shrub | |
| | Kidneywood | Eysenhardrtia Orthocarpa | Small Tree | |
| | Littleleaf sumac | Rhus microphylla | Medium shrub | |
| | Longneck ruel | Ruellia nudiflora | Perennial | |
| | Mariola | Parthenium incanum | Small shrub | |
| | Mexican bush sage | Salvia leucantha | Small shrub | |
| | Milfoil prickle-free | Mariosousa millefolia | Large shrub | |
| | morning glory vine | Merremia dissecta | Vine | |
| | Narrow-leaf milkweed | Asclepias angustifolia | Small shrub | |
| | Night-blooming hesperaloe | Hesperaloe nocturna | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Not known | Lippia formosa | Small tree | |
| | Octopus agave | Agave vilmoriniana | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Old Mexico prickly pear | Opuntia gomei 'Old Mexico' | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Palmer Indian mallow | Abutilon palmeri | Small shrub | |
| | Palmers penstemon | Penstemon palmeri | Subshrub | |
| | Papalotillo | Guardiola platyphylla | Perennial | |
| | Parry agave | Agave parryi var. parryi | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Parry penstemon | Penstemon parryi | Perennial | |
| | Passion fruit | Passiflora arida | Vine | |
| | Pata de Cabra | Bauhinia pringlii | Large shrub/ small tree | |
| | Pink queen's wreath | Antigonon leptopus | Vine | |
| | Prickly pear | Opuntia bravoana | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Purple bush bean | Macroptilium atropurpureum | Vine | |
| | Purple Three-awn | Aristida purpurea | Grass | |
| | Pyramid bush | Melochia tomentosa | Small shrub | |
| | Quail bush | Atriplex lentiformis | Large shrub | |
| | Red bird-of-paradise | Caesalpinia pulcherrima | Medium shrub | |
| | Red jacobinia | Justicia candicans | Small shrub | |
| | Red Yucca | Hesperaloe parviflora | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Rock fig | Ficus petiolaris | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Rockdaisy | Perityle emori | Annual subshrub | |
| | sangrengado | Jatropha cuneata | Large shrub | |
| | santa maria barrel | Ferocactus santa-maria | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | SantaCatalina Burstwort | Hermannia pauciflora | Subshrub | |
| | Seep willow | Baccharis salicifolia | Large shrub | |
| | Siskiyou pink | Gaura lindheimeri - rose | Perennial | |
| | Skeleton-leaf goldeneye | Viguieria stenoloba | Medium shrub | |
| | Smooth Desert Spoon | Dasylirion longissima | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Snake cactus | Morengaya pensilis | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Sonoran air plant | Tillandsia exserta | Perennial | |
| | Sonoran nightshade | Solanum hindsianum | Large shrub | |
| | Sosa Carrillo heritage fig | Ficus carica | Medium tree | |
| | Southwest coral bean | Erythrina flabelliformis | Medium shrub | |
| | Summer Snow™ plumbago | Plumbago scandens | Small shrub | |
| | Superb penstemon | Penstemon superbus | Perennial | |
| | Swizzle sticks | Senecio anteuphobium | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Tacinga | Tacinga inamoena Marlon's dwarf | Small cactus | |
| | Texas betony | Stachys coccinea | Perennial | |
| | Texas firecracker bush | Hamelia patens | Medium shrub | |
| | Texasplume | Bauhinia lunaroides | Large shrub | |
| | Totempole cactus | Lophocereus schottii fa. monstrosus | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | trans-pecos false acacia | Vachellia vernicosa | Large shrub | |
| | Triangleleaf bursage | Ambrosia deltoidea | Small shrub | |
| | Tuna colorada | Opuntia stenopetala | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | Turpentine bush | Ericameria laricifolia | Medium shrub | |
| | Valeriana del Monte | Dyschoriste hirsutissima | Subshrub | |
| | Various cultivars | Capsicum annuum | Medium shrub | |
| | Velvet leaf senna | Senna lindheimeriana | Small shrub | |
| | Velvet mesquite | Prosopis velutina | Tree | |
| | velvet-pod mimosa | Mimosa dysocarpa | | |
| | Violet prickly pear | Opuntia gosseliniana | Succulent/semisucculent | |
| | wild cotton | Gossypium thurberi | Small tree | |
| | Wolfberry | Lycium brevipes | Large shrub | |
| | Wright silktassel | Garrya wrightii | Medium shrub | |
| | Yellow bells | Tecoma stans | Large shrub | |
| | Yellow orchid vine | Callaeum macropterum | Vine | |
| | Zipehui | Euphorbia californica | Small shrub | |
| Common Name ↑ ↓ | Botanical Name ↑ ↓ | Form ↑ ↓ | Purpose |