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Nicotiana trigonophylla
Desert Tobacco
A perennial Tobaccos that grow in desert washes. In Borrejo Springs it grows in full sun mixed with the cactus and rocks. Use as a plant community component for a desert planting, or as an unusual add...
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Nolina parryii
Parryi Nolina
Parry Nolina grows along the desert side of the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mtns. and interior hills of Riverside and San Diego counties. It looks kinda like a tall pineapple with a six foot stalk...
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Oenothera deltoides
Desert Primrose
A beautiful annual or short lived perennial(like every perennial in the trade) of the much of the desert areas of Southern California. This picture was taken around Ridgecrest, but I have seen it at t...
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Oenothera primiveris
Yellow Sun Cups
A beautiful annual of the western deserts. This picture was taken around Ridgecrest,. This plant disappears after flowering, nothing there. I doubt you will every see it in commercial seed packs, it w...
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Opuntia basilaris
Beavertail Cactus
A small well behaved cactus that grows in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts. Native from Ridgecrest area to Utah and S. to Mexico. Give sun and little or no water. Very difficult in clay soils, acid soi...
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Penstemon incertus
Western Desert Penstemon
Penstemon incertus is showy sky blue perennial that has 2 foot of light green (with a little silver) foliage with 2 foot spikes of blue above it. It grows along the desert edges from north L.A. to Lo...
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Penstemon palmeri
Balloon Flower
Balloon flower is a 2' perennial with a 3' flower spikes of 1-2" whitish-pink flowers, over white-grey flowers. Native to desert mountains. It is fairly easy with good drainage. It loves it in the des...
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Penstemon speciosus
Sagebrush Penstemon
A 2' perennial with 1-2" sky blue flowers, May-July. Native to southeastern Sierra Nevada to Wash., Idaho, Utah. It likes full sun good drainage and little water. It is a drought tolerant, a showy bor...
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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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Populus fremontii
Western Cottonwood
A deciduous tree. Plant and stand back, very fast with regular water, on one site 30' in a year. We grow male trees, females have cotton. An excellent shade tree. Keep away from septic system. Do not ...
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Populus fremontii Carrizo
Fremont Cottonwood
'Carrizo', This form is for interior plantings only. It will get rust if the climate is too moist. This form is very tough. It should do fine in most desert sites and even into parts of the Great Basi...
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Populus fremontii Zapata
Fremont Cottonwood
''Zapata'comes from a parent tree that is 80' tall and 40' wide out in a stream bed of a customers property. I had to stand on my pickup roof with a 10' pole pruner to get a bottom branch. It is nativ...
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Populus fremontiiX Calm
Fremont Cottonwood
'Calm' is from the California Living Museum in Bakersfield, this is at the mouth of Kern Canyon.This is a series of plants and they are not sex defined, they can have cotton. We use these for revegeta...
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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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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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Purshia glandulosa
Desert bitterbrush
Desert bitterbrush is anevergreen shrub that grows to 4' tall and 6' across. It is native from Tom's place north of Bishop, east into west central Nevada and south along the east side of the Sierras t...
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Purshia stansburiana
Cliff Rose
Native to the north edges of the Mojave desert to Colorado, Utah and Arizona. A 4 ft. high evergreen (it can get bigger if happy) with creamy yellow 1" flowers in April - June followed by an intricate...
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Ribes quercetorum
Yellow Gooseberry
A sprawling 3' deciduous shrub. Its flowers are yellow in Mar.-May. Native to foothill slopes in south coast ranges and Sierra Nevada. It likes sun to part shade, partly dry to moderate water. This 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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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 dorrii
Desert Sage
Salvia dorrii, Desert Sage is a beautiful shrub, sub-shrub 2-3ft. It has gray foliage and deep, deep blue flowers (bracts). Desert Sage needs perfect drainage (native on sand, volcanic rock to decompo...
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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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Senecio douglasii
Butterweed
A two-three foot perennial with one-inch yellow daisies. It looks like a grey marguerite. It is useful in revegetation, bank stabilization, or in dryland gardens. Give sun and little or no water in mo...
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