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.
Select the 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 | ||
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Graythorn | Ziziphus obtusifolia | Large shrub | |||
Texas creeping oxeye | Zexmenia hispida | Small shrub | |||
Soaptree yucca | Yucca elata | ||||
Banana Yucca | Yucca baccata | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Felger crownbeard | Verbesina felgeri | Small shrub | |||
Nacapule jasmine | Vallesia laciniata | Large shrub | |||
Torch cactus hybrids | Trichocereus sp. | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Golden fleece | Thymophylla pentachaeta | Perennial | |||
Glory of Texas | Thelocactus bicolor | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Angelita daisy (Hymenoxys) | Tetraneuris acaulis | Small shrub | |||
Yellow bells | Tecoma stans | Large shrub | |||
Mountain marigold | Tagetes lemmonii | Small shrub | |||
Day-of-the-dead flower | Symphyotrichum lanceolatum | Perennial | |||
Chapacolor | Stegnosperma halimifolium | Medium shrub | |||
Texas betony | Stachys coccinea | Perennial | |||
Desert globe mallow | Sphaeralcea ambigua | Small shrub | |||
Texas mountain laurel | Sophora secundiflora | Large shrub | |||
Ojo de liebre | Solanum houstonii | Medium shrub | |||
Sonoran nightshade | Solanum hindsianum | Medium shrub | |||
Coffee senna | Senna occidentalis | Small shrub | |||
Scarlet red Salvia | Salvia microphylla | Small shrub | |||
Mexican bush sage | Salvia leucantha | Small shrub | |||
Red autumn sage | Salvia greggii | Small shrub | |||
Blue sage | Salvia azurea | Small shrub | |||
Desert ruellia | Ruellia peninsularis | Medium shrub | |||
'Garcia Camp' heritage pomagranate | Punica granatum | Small tree | |||
Velvet mesquite | Prosopis velutina | Tree | |||
Lavender spice | Poliomintha madrensis | Small shrub | |||
Summer Snow™ plumbago | Plumbago zeylanica | Small shrub | |||
Arrowweed | Pluchea sericea | Large shrub | |||
Superb penstemon | Penstemon superbus | Perennial | |||
Parry penstemon | Penstemon parryi | Perennial | |||
Scented penstemon | Penstemon palmeri | Perennial | |||
Firecracker penstemon | Penstemon eatonii | Perennial | |||
Passion fruit | Passiflora arida | Vine | |||
Scarlet Flame Passion Vine | Passiflora × "Scarlet Flame" | Vine | |||
Mariola | Parthenium incanum | Small shrub | |||
Desert Museum palo verde | Parkinsonia 'Desert Museum' | Tree | |||
Cardon | Pachycereus pringlii | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Desert ironwood tree | Olneya tesota | Tree | |||
Mexican Evening Primrose | Oenothera speciosa | Perennial | |||
Hummingbird nopal | Nopalea karwinskiana | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Deer grass | Muhlenbergia rigens | Grass | |||
White Cloud Muhly Grass | Muhlenbergia capillaris | Grass | |||
Yellow morning glory vine | Merremia aurea | Vine | |||
Pyramid bush | Melochia tomentosa | Small shrub | |||
Blackfoot daisy | Melampodium leucanthum | Small shrub | |||
Mangle Dulce | Maytenus phillanthoides | Small shrub | |||
Red snapdragon vine | Maurandya antirrhyniflora | Vine | |||
Santa Rita acacia | Mariosousa millefolia | Large shrub | |||
Feather tree | Lysiloma watsonii | Medium tree | |||
Totempole cactus | Lophocerus schottii f. monstrosa | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Creosotebush | Larrea tridentata | Large shrub | |||
Purple trailing lantana | Lantana montevidensis | Ground cover | |||
Confiturilla grande | Lagaceae decipiens | Medium shrub | |||
Mexican Honeysuckle | Justicia spicigera | Small shrub | |||
Red jacobinia | Justicia candicans | Small shrub | |||
Yellow chuparosa | Justicia californica | Medium shrub | |||
Desert lavender (emoryi) | Hyptis albida | Large shrub | |||
Sonoran spider lily | Hymenocallis sonorensis | Perennial | |||
Red hesperaloe | Hesperaloe parviflora | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Texas firecracker bush | Hamelia patens | Medium shrub | |||
Wild Cotton | Gossypium turneri | Medium shrub | |||
Wild cotton | Gossypium thurberi | Medium shrub | |||
San Marcos hibiscus | Gossypium harsnekii | Medium shrub | |||
Wild cotton | Gossypium davidsonii | Medium shrub | |||
Goodding verbena | Glandularia goodingii | Perennial | |||
Siskiyou pink | Gaura lindheimeri | Perennial | |||
Slender Goldshower | Galphimia gracilis | ||||
'Sosa Carrillo' heritage fig | Ficus carica | Medium tree | |||
Fishhook barrel "yellow flower" | Ferocactus wislezenii | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Fire barrel | Ferocactus gracilis | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Coville barrel cactus | Ferocactus emoryi | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Apache plume | Fallugia paradoxa | Medium shrub | |||
White spurge | Euphorbia xantii | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Wax spurge | Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Aguirre™ turpentine bush | Ericameria laricifolia | Small shrub | |||
Desert fuschia (Zauschneria) | Epilobium canum | Perennial | |||
Brittlebush | Encelia farinosa | Medium shrub | |||
Golden barrel | Echinocactus grusonii | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Hopbush | Dodonea viscosa | Large shrub | |||
Desert spoon | Dasylirion wheeleri | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Toothless sotol | Dasylirion longissimum | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Silver dalea "Monterey" | Dalea bicolor | Large shrub | |||
'Goodwin Homestead' heritage quince | Cydonia oblonga | Small tree | |||
Bat faced cuphea | Cuphea llavea | Small shrub | |||
Little-leaf cordia | Cordia parvifolia | Large shrub | |||
Texas olive | Cordia boisieri | Tree | |||
Mist flower | Conoclinium greggii | Perennial | |||
Arizona grape ivy | Cissus trifoliata | Vine | |||
Damianita | Chrysactina mexicana | Small shrub | |||
Boneset | Chromolaena saggitata | Medium shrub | |||
Fragrant mist flower | Chromolaena odorata | Medium shrub | |||
Burgundy desert willow | Chilopsis linearis | Medium tree | |||
Chiltepin (wild type) | Capsicum annum | Small shrub | |||
Fairy duster | Calliandra eriophylla | Small shrub | |||
Yellow orchid vine | Callaeum macropterum | Vine | |||
Palo piojo | Caesalpinia pumila | Medium shrub | |||
Rio Grande butterfly bush | Buddleja sessiliflora | Medium shrub | |||
Croosvine | Bignonia capreolata | Large vine | |||
Chocolate flower | Berlandiera lyrata | Perennial | |||
Desert marigold | Baileya multiradiata | Perennial | |||
Seep willow | Baccharis salicifolia | Large shrub | |||
Quail bush | Atriplex lentiformis | Large shrub | |||
Butterfly milkweed | Asclepias tuberosa | Perennial | |||
Pine-leaf milkweed | Asclepias linearis | Small shrub | |||
Narrow-leaf milkweed | Asclepias angustifolia | Small shrub | |||
Red queen's wreath | Antigonon leptopus | Vine | |||
Desert honeysuckle | Anisacanthus thurberi | Medium shrub | |||
Flame bush | Anisacanthus quadrifidus | Medium shrub | |||
Limita | Anisacanthus andersonii | ||||
False indigo bush | Amorpha fruticosa | Shrub | |||
Sonoran bursage | Ambrosia cordifolia | Small shrub | |||
Lemon verbena | Aloysia wrightii | Medium shrub | |||
Bee brush | Aloysia gratissima | Medium shrub | |||
Floss flower | Ageratum corymbosum | Perennial | |||
Parry agave | Agave parryi | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Hohokam agave | Agave murpheyi | Succulent/semisucculent | |||
Palmer Indian mallow | Abutilon palmeri | Small shrub | |||
Common Name ↑ ↓ | Botanical Name ↑ ↓ | Form ↑ ↓ | Purpose |