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Penstemon thurberi
Desert Surprise
A 2-3' perennial with small narrow leaves on slender stems with 1/2" blue flowers that are not showy but very interesting. The whole plant is a kind of invisible wild flower that is used by hummingbir...
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Phacelia campanularia
Desert Bluebell
There are a couple of forms of this. ssp. campanularia that grows in the S.E. Calif. desert. ssp. vasiformis grows in the middle desert. The trade does not recongize either and only sells the species....
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Phacelia tanacetifolia
Lacy Phacelia
An annual wildflower of sizable portions that grows under creosote and other desert shrubs in the Mojave, Quercus dumosa, Q. Douglasiana and Juniperus californica and other dryland trees in the Califo...
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Pluchea sericea
Arrow Weed
A 5ft evergreen (gray) bush. It grows in sandy washes where there is moisture. Native from the San Luis Obispo county into the Deserts to Texas.. The flowers are lavender and relatively showy. This on...
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Prosopis glandulosa torreyana
Honey Mesquite
Honey Mesquite is a deciduous tree to 20 ft.. Native in the San Joaquin Valley, the Mojave Desert and into Mexico. This Mesquite has edible pods that taste similar to stringy carob pods. Although It...
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Prosopis pubescens
Screwbean Mesquite
The pods are tight little spirals on a shrub or small tree, flowers yellow, deciduous 15-25'. We've found it to be less hardy than Honey Mesquite by 5 or more degrees. This is a very nice looking tree...
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Prunus fasciculata
Desert Almond
A rather nondescript deciduous shrub to 6\'. It\'s flowers are mot showy. There are little almonds on it in summer. It is a good transition plant between the oaks and the desert. It is also a good wil...
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Prunus fremontii
Desert Apricot
Desert Apricot grows in sandy washes and moister hillsides and gullies. This is one of the plants of the desert that you can't figure out have(or why) it grows. You'll almost never see a ripe fruit as...
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Psilostrophe cooperi
Paper flower
Whitestem Paperflower is a very heavy flowering perennial that grows in the desert mountains from Southern California through New Mexico and up into Utah. Give sun and little water after the first ...
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Rhamnus californica cuspidata
A form of Coffeberry from the Sierras and inner Coast Ranges of S. California. The only significant difference from this form and the regular species is dentate(small teeth) leaves. In its range it is...
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Rosa woodsii glabrata (mohavensis)
It looks like a cross between Rosa californica and Rosa woodsii var. ultramontana and this one grows in springs in the Mohave Desert....
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Salazaria mexicana
Bladder-Sage
A rather spiny 3' bush with intricately arranged 1" purple flowers. The whole effect is to be ghostly. Grows in many of the low salt areas of the deserts. Give full sun and no water after the 3rd or 4...
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Salix exigua
Narrowleaf Willow
A tall deciduous shrub that is native from Texas to California to B.C.. It has a grey leaf that is only 1/4 inch wide and 2-5 inches long. I have seen these in Lee Vining, and they were growing in an...
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Salix goodingii
San Joaquin Willow
A 15-30' deciduous shrub-tree. Yellow stems and light green leaves. Native through much of the Southwest. Not a fast grower. It spends most of its first few year growing roots. We have seen this in th...
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Salix goodingii variabilis
San Joaquin Willow
A 15-30ft deciduous shrub-tree. Yellow stems and light green leaves. Native through much of the Southwest. Not a fast grower. It spends most of its first few year growing roots. ...
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Salvia apiana compacta
Compact White Sage
Compact white sage is about half the size of the regular white sage, but the leaves are the same. The flowers are on a slender spike with very quaint clean flowers that are perfectly sized for bumbl...
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Salvia carduacea
Thistle Sage
A very colorful annual of hot interior areas. ...
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Salvia columbariae
Chia
A little annual sage that doesn't look like a sage. Not much scent but nice 1 inch flowers on a 1-2 foot plant. Native on the south slopes on rock or gravel. Chia grows commonly on disturbed soil. But...
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Salvia eremostachya
Santa Rosa Sage
Santa Rosa Sage grows in dry stream beds and gravelly slopes along the western edge of the Colorado desert from about Palm Springs to Baja....
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Salvia mohavensis
Mojave sage
(syn. Audibertia capitata, Audibertiella c., Ramona c.) Mojave sage is a nice little perennial sage from the Little San Bernardino mountains to the Clark mountains of Nevada. Bright fuzzy green leaves...
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Salvia vaseyi
Wand Sage
Wand sage is a 4 foot tall gray shrub with white flowers. It has very long, wand-like flowers that rise high above the short mound of gray foliage. It is found in the Colorado and Mojave deserts in ...
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Senna covesii
Coues' cassia
Coues' cassia flowers are very much like a Palo Verde's, shrub is like Encelia farinosa.
This Cassia has done very well in the nursery. I keep expecting it to be difficult and picky. Doesn't seem to...
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Sidalcea neomexicana
Checkers
Checkers, Sidalcea neomexicana, has a clump of dark green leaves six inches or so across producing two feet tall stems with many one inch wide mauve flowers. Wow, that was a long sentence, if that was...
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Simmondsia chinensis
Jojoba
An evergreen shrub 4 12', dioecious, smooth, gray-green leaves. Native to dry slopes bordering Mojave Desert and throughout S. Arizona. It likes full sun, no water after established. It has an edible ...
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Sphaeralcea ambigua
Desert Mallow
Desert Mallow is a two foot perennial with many one inch orange flowers on a two to three foot spike with gray almost fuzzy foliage. Desert Hollyhock is another name for the flower spikes that can...
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