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Cercidium microphyllum
Littleleaf Palo Verde
Native from southern California to Baja. Palo Verde has yellow flowers in 1" clusters, an open structure with small leaflets that appear only with moisture that make it a light screen for desert borde...
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Chilopsis linearis
Desert Willow
Large deciduous shrub to small tree. (There is one in McFarland 30\'+tall.) Its long narrow leaves are willow-like. Its flowers are fragrant, pink to lavender. They appear in May and keep coming until...
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Chrysothamnus nauseosus
Rabbitbrush
Rabbit brush is a nondescript two to four foot perennial that erupts in late summer with a passionate display of appealing yellow that has stopped many an artist and ...
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Chrysothamnus nauseosus viscosus
Owens Rabbitbrush
Owens Rabbitbrush native to the east side of the southern Sierra and through the White Mountains into Nevada.
Synonym: Hybrid -Chrysothamnus nauseosus ssp. hololeucus X Ericameria cuneata....
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Crossosoma bigelovii
Ragged Rockflower
Ragged Rockflower grows in rocky areas along the edges of the deserts of Southern California, Northern Mexico, Arizona and Southern Nevada. A gray bush that looks like the desert of a romantic wester...
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Cucurbita foetidissima
Coyote Melon
A coarse, trailing perennial, with gray-green, rough leaves, yellow flowers, and a large root, undergoes dormancy after flowering and fruiting. Occurs often in sandy areas. Produces a gourd, not edibl...
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Cucurbita palmata
Coyote Gourd
Coyote Melon grows in many soils from the edge of the coastal sage scrub through the desert into Nevada and Arizona. A native gourd that develops a large root that supports the rather weird moth Melit...
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Dalea fremontii
Indigo Bush
Indigo Bush is a four foot tall deciduous shrub with whitish stems and purple pea flowers. It grows in the western deserts in creosote bush scrub and Great Basin sage plant communities. As it lives...
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Dalea spinosa
Tree-Pea
Smoke tree is a small tree with purple, sweet- smelling pea flowers. This desert tree is named for its gray new growth which, from a distances, makes the tree look like a plume of smoke. Smoke tree p...
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Delphinium parishii
Sky Blue Larkspur
As Delphinium cardinale but blue, more drought tolerant but less garden tolerant....
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Dyssodia thurberi
Dainty Yellow Composite
Perennial, 6 in. high, 1 ft. across, western deserts to 5500 ft. needs good drainage and no summer water (along coast) or a little (inland) after established, very showy rock garden plant, gets very ...
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Emmenanthe penduliflora
Whispering Bells
A common fire follower. Whispering Bells would be an excellent additive to seed mixtures for ersion control and and fire following seed mixture, if you can find it....
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Encelia actoni
Mountain bush sunflower
Mountain bush sunflower is a perennial shrub, 4 ft. tall with yellow daisy flowers. Grey foliage and yellow flowers stand out in a garden. Needs sun and very limited water after the first few months. ...
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Encelia farinosa
Incienso
Perennial shrub, 3 ft., grey with 2-3 inch yellow daisy flowers.(see E. actonii). It survived a -8 this year out there but the ground only froze for a few hours and less than an inch deep. It does not...
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Encelia frutescens
Button Brittlebush
Button Brittlebush grows in dry washes and mesas in the deserts of California and Arizona. Flowers are not showy, but the butterflies seem to like them. An interesting addition to a desert style garde...
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Ephedra californica
Evergreen shrub, 5 ft., dry areas, central and southern California stems used for tea. Ephedra spp. are good wildlife plants....
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Ephedra nevadensis
Nevada Ephedra
Mormon tea grows along the western edges of the California deserts and up into Southeastern Oregon, across Nevada into Utah and down into Arizona. This ephedra is a small leafless shrub that flowers ...
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Ephedra viridis
Green Mormon Tea
Green Mormon Tea is an evergreen shrub, 4 ft., desert areas, Calif. to Utah, looks like leafless shrub. In many desert locations both species (E. californica and Ephedra virides) exist together. Ephed...
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Ericameria brachylepis
Boundary Goldenbush
Boundary Goldenbush is a 3 foot tall yellow flowered shrub. It likes full sun. As with many arid plants it is stress deciduous. When conditions become too dry Boundary Goldenbush drops some leaves and...
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Eriogonum bailey bailey
Annual Field Buckwheat
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. We don't sell it. This picture is mostly to remember what it was....
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Eriogonum fasciculatum foliolosum
California Buckwheat
California Buckwheat the common one that grows in most of the populated areas of California and is hardy to -10 and very drought tolerant. We've had customers remove rose bushes to plant this one a...
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Eriogonum fasciculatum polifolium
Interior California Buckwheat
California interior buckwheat ia as Eriogonum fasciculatum but grayer and tougher, hardy to -20 . Foliolosum and polifolium overlap in many areas. Most notably around Lebec, Palmdale, Lancaster and ju...
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Eriogonum inflatum
Desert Trumpet
A funny looking perennial with small pink flowers on a 3' stalk. The stalk is inflated in the middle. This plant is all over the east end of our county and across over to Ariz. and Colorado. Hoover sa...
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Eurotia lanata
Winterfat
Synonyms: Eurotia lanata, Krascheninnikovia lanata and Ceratoides lanata ( You may find it listed either way as the botanists cannot agree, other than to make life difficult.) Winter Fat is a 2-3' pe...
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Ferocactus acanthodes
Compass Barrel Cactus
(Ferocactus cylindraceus) A slow growing mound of thorns to maybe 6 ft. Tall and a foot wide. The 3 inch across yellow- orange flowers appear in May - July. Give sun, very fast draining soil, and li...
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