Eremophila
hygrophana:
Blue Emu Bush
Acacia farnesiana:
Sweet Acacia
Tree: sweetly fragrant, golden yellow, puffball flowers.
Antigonon leptopus:
Coral Vine / Queen Anne's Wreath
Vine: clusters of white, pink or red flowers.
Anisacanthus quadrifidus:
Wright's Desert Honeysuckle / Flame Honeysuckle
Shrub: reddish-orange tubular flowers.
Asclepias linaria:
Pineneedle Milkweed
Shrub: leaves like pine needles, and white, clustered flowers.
Asclepias subulata:
Rush Milkweed / Desert Milkweed
Shrub: long, narrow, upright blue to green stems and
small, yellow to white, odd-shaped flowers in clusters.
Asclepias tuberosa:
Butterfly Milkweed
Herb: clustered orange or yellow flowers.
Baileya multiradiata:
Desert Marigold
Herb: bright yellow flowers.
Bougainvillea:
Bougainvillea
Vine: cascading or climbing, with colorful bracts.
Calliandra californica:
Tabardillo / Baja Fairy Duster
Shrub: flowers composed of bright red, clustered stamens that resemble
miniature dusters.
Calliandra eriophylla:
Fairyduster
Shrub: pink, powder-puff flowers.
Ceanothus greggii:
Desert Ceanothus / Wild Lilac
Shrub: crowded clusters of small white flowers cover entire plant and produce a strong
lilac scent.
Chilopsis linearis:
Desert Willow
Tree: Large, fragrant flowers, purple to pink to white.
Conoclinium greggii:
Gregg's Mistflower
Herb: fluffy lavender flowers.
Dalea frutescens:
Black Prairie Clover / Black Dalea
Shrub: Rose-purple flowers in short spikes.
Dalea pulchra:
Santa Catalina Prairie Clover / Indigo Bush
Shrub: Purple flowers in clusters.
Encelia farinosa:
Brittlebush
Shrub: yellow flowers with orange to brown centers and sliver, blue-green leaves.
Epilobium canum:
Hummingbird Trumpet
Herb: reddish-orange flowers in profuse clusters.
Eremophila glabra:
Common Emu Bush
Shrub: red tubular flowers.
Eremophila hygrophana:
Blue Emu Bush
Shrub: blue tubular flowers.
Eremophila maculata var maculata:
Red Eremophila / Valentine Bush
Shrub: tubular flowers in red and other colors.
Gaura lindheimeri:
Lindheimer's Beeblossom / Butterfly Gaura
Herb: Oddly shaped white to pink flowers on long, thin stalks.
Glandularia gooddingii:
Southwestern Mock Vervain / Goodding's Verbena
Herb: Hemispherical clusters of purple to pink flowers.
Justicia californica:
Beloperone / Chuparosa
Shrub: reddish tubular flowers and blue-green, succulent-like stems.
Justicia spicigera:
Mohintli / Mexican Honeysuckle
Shrub: Clusters of orange, tubular flowers.
Eremophila hygrophana: Blue Emu Bush / Blue Bells
Lantana camara:
Lantana
Shrub: small flowers clustered into hemispheres of various colors.
Lantana montevidensis:
Trailing Shrubverbena / Trailing Lantana
Shrub: small flowers, usually purple or gold, in rounded clusters.
Lobelia laxiflora:
Sierra Madre Lobelia
Herb: orange-red tubular flowers with yellow throats.
Melampodium leucanthum:
Plains Blackfoot / Black Foot Daisy
Herb: honey-scented, white flowers with yellow eyes.
Penstemon baccharifolius:
Baccharisleaf Beardtongue / Rock Penstemon
Tubular red flowers. One of the easiest Penstemons to grow.
Penstemon eatonii:
Firecracker Penstemon
Herb: bright red, tubular flowers arrayed on stalk.
Penstemon parryi:
Parry's Beardtongue / Parry's Penstemon
Herb: dark pink to magenta, tubular flowers, with flared lobes.
Poliomintha maderensis:
Lavender Spice / Mexican Oregano
Purple to white flowers in clusters.
Rosa banksiae:
Lady Banks' Rose
Vine-like shrub with large clusters of white or yellow flowers.
Salvia coccinea:
Blood Sage / Scarlet Sage
Herb: bright red flowers.
Salvia greggii:
Autumn Sage
Shrub: brightly colored flowers in many shades of red.
Senna artemisioides:
Silver Senna / Feathery Cassia
Shrub: profuse, clustered, yellow flowers.
Sophora secundiflora:
Mescal Bean / Texas Mountain Laurel
Tree: fragrant violet-blue flowers in drooping clusters.
Sphaeralcea ambigua:
Desert Globemallow
Shrubby herb: Cup shaped flowers in orange, red, pink or white.
Tagetes lemmonii:
Lemmon's Marigold
Shrub: yellow flowers with orange centers and aromatic leaves.
Tecoma capensis:
Cape Honeysuckle
Shrub: orange trumpet flowers in clusters.
Tetraneuris acaulis:
Stemless Four-Nerve Daisy / Angelita Daisy
Herb: Yellow daisy-like flowers.
Thymophylla pentachaeta:
Golden Dyssodia
Herb: yellow, daisy-like flowers.
