2024 Plant List

2024 Plant Sale Details

Please explore our inventory below which may experience additional updates prior to the start of the sale. You can use the sort and print features to generate your shopping list. Select the Camera icon to perform a Google search for images and information on many of these plants.

Select the Caresheet icon 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.

As always, the region’s #1 botany experts will be on hand to answer questions and offer advice to aid your shopping. Proceeds from the sale support our important Desert Museum’s mission. Please bring your empty 1-gallon nursery pots to recycle for next year’s sale.

Last update: 10-02-2024

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Butterfly Gardens Butterfly Gardens
Spring Flowers
Tucson Revegetation < 4500'
Hummingbird Gardens Hummingbird Gardens
Summer Flowers
Takes Light Shade
Tortoise Food Tortoise Food
Fall Flowers
Hardy 15° to 22°F
Bee Gardens Bees
Winter Flowers
Patio Pots
Bat Gardens Bats
Bird Cover/Food
Moth Gardens
Ethnobotany Ethnobotany

Filtered by: Butterfly Gardens (See All)

Common Name Botanical Name Form Purpose
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Angelita daisyTetraneuris (Hymenoxys) acaulisSmall shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon ArrowweedPluchea serriceaLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon autumn sageSalvia greggiiSmall shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Baja fairy dusterCalliandra californicaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
 Camera icon Baja snapdragonGambelia junceaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Bee brushAloysia gratissimaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon blue palo verdeParkinsonia floridaTree Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon BonesetChromolaena sagitattaSmall shrub/spreading Butterfly GardensBeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon BrittlebushEncelia farinosaMedium shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Bush verbenaCitharexylum flabelliformisMedium shrub Butterfly GardensEthnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Butterfly milkweedAsclepias tuberosaSmall shrub Butterfly GardensEthnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Catclaw acaciaSenegalia greggiLarge shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon ChapacolorStegnosperma halimifoliumLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Chaparral sageSalvia clevelandiiMedium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
 Camera icon Chihuahuan brickellbushBrickellia floribundaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Chocolate flowerBerlandiera lyrataSubshrub/groundcover Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon ChuparosaJusticia californicaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon CreosotebushLarrea tridentataLarge shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon DamianitaChrysactinia mexicanaSmall shrub Butterfly GardensTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Darcy's Mexican sageSalvia darcyiiMedium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Day-of-the-dead flowerSymphiotrichum lanceolatumPerennial Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert bird of paradiseCaesalpinia mexicanaLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert ironwood treeOlneya tesotaTree Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert lavenderHyptis emoryiLarge shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert marigoldBaileya multiradiataPerennial Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert milkweedAsclepias subulataSmall shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Desert zinniaZinnia acerosaSubshrub Butterfly GardensBeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon DogweedThymophylla pentachaetaSmall shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Drummond's clematisClematis drummondiiVine Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon False-indigo bushAmorpha fruticosaLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBatsTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Firecracker penstemonPenstemon eatoniPerennial Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Flattop buckwheatEriogonum fasciculatumSmall shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Fragrant mist flowerChromolaena odorataMedium shrub Butterfly GardensBeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Frog fruitPhyla nodifloraGround cover Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Goodding verbenaGlandularia gooddingiiPerennial Butterfly Gardens
 Camera icon hofmeisteriaHofmeisteria crassifoliaSubshrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon KidneywoodEysenhardrtia OrthocarpaSmall Tree Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Longneck ruelRuellia nudifloraPerennial Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensEthnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Milfoil prickle-freeMariosousa millefoliaLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon morning glory vineMerremia dissectaVine Butterfly GardensBees
 Camera icon Not knownLippia formosaSmall tree Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon PapalotilloGuardiola platyphyllaPerennial Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Parry penstemonPenstemon parryiPerennial Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Passion fruitPassiflora aridaVine Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Purple bush bean Macroptilium atropurpureumVine Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Pyramid bushMelochia tomentosa Small shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Red bird-of-paradiseCaesalpinia pulcherrimaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBeesEthnobotany
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Red jacobiniaJusticia candicansSmall shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Seep willowBaccharis salicifoliaLarge shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Siskiyou pinkGaura lindheimeri - rosePerennial Butterfly GardensHummingbird Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Skeleton-leaf goldeneyeViguieria stenolobaMedium shrub Butterfly GardensBeesTortoise Food
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Summer Snow™ plumbagoPlumbago scandens Small shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Superb penstemonPenstemon superbusPerennial Butterfly GardensHummingbird Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Texas betonyStachys coccineaPerennial Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Texas firecracker bushHamelia patens Medium shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon TexasplumeBauhinia lunaroidesLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon trans-pecos false acaciaVachellia vernicosaLarge shrub Butterfly GardensBees
 Camera icon Tuna coloradaOpuntia stenopetalaSucculent/semisucculent Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Turpentine bushEricameria laricifolia Medium shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Valeriana del MonteDyschoriste hirsutissimaSubshrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Velvet leaf sennaSenna lindheimerianaSmall shrub Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Velvet mesquiteProsopis velutinaTree Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon velvet-pod mimosaMimosa dysocarpa Butterfly GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon WolfberryLycium brevipesLarge shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Wright silktasselGarrya wrightiiMedium shrub Butterfly Gardens
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Yellow bellsTecoma stansLarge shrub Butterfly GardensHummingbird GardensBees
Plant Care Sheet Camera icon Yellow orchid vineCallaeum macropterumVine Butterfly Gardens
Common Name Botanical Name Form Purpose
Butterfly Gardens Butterfly Gardens
Spring Flowers
Tucson Revegetation < 4500'
Hummingbird Gardens Hummingbird Gardens
Summer Flowers
Takes Light Shade
Tortoise Food Tortoise Food
Fall Flowers
Hardy 15° to 22°F
Bee Gardens Bees
Winter Flowers
Patio Pots
Bat Gardens Bats
Bird Cover/Food
Moth Gardens
Ethnobotany Ethnobotany