Plant Library
Tucson Plant & Garden Library
A searchable guide to the plants that grow in Tucson and the low desert — from desert landscape plants (trees, cacti, agaves, shrubs) to garden favorites you'll find at the nursery: vegetables, herbs, annual color, citrus and fruit trees, roses, and houseplants. Each one with water use, sun, size, and exactly how to grow and care for it here. Compiled from University of Arizona Cooperative Extension & Pima County Master Gardeners, AMWUA, and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
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- African Milk Tree
- African sumac
- Aleppo Pine
- Alkali Sacaton
- All-In-One Almond
- Aloe Vera
- Angel's trumpet
- Angelita Daisy
- Angelonia / Summer Snapdragon
- Anna Apple
- Annual Vinca / Madagascar Periwinkle
- Anthurium (Flamingo Flower)
- Arctic Star Nectarine
- Argentine Giant
- Arizona Cottontop
- Arizona Cypress
- Arizona Fishhook Pincushion
- Arizona Grape
- Arizona Queen of the Night
- Arizona Rosewood
- Arizona Sweet Orange
- Armenian cucumber
- Arrowhead Plant (Syngonium)
- Artichoke Agave
- Arugula
- Asian jasmine
- Autumn Sage
- Baby Rubber Plant (Peperomia)
- Bachelor's Button (Cornflower)
- Baja fairy duster
- Baja Passionflower
- Bamboo muhly
- Banana
- Banana Yucca
- Beaked Yucca
- Bear Grass
- Bearss (Persian) Lime
- Beauty Plum
- Beavertail Prickly Pear
- Beet
- Belinda's Dream Shrub Rose
- Bell pepper
- Big Blue Liriope
- Big Galleta
- Bird of Paradise
- Bird's Nest Fern
- Bismarck Palm
- Black Mulberry (fruiting)
- Black Rose Aeonium
- Black-eyed pea (cowpea)
- Black-eyed Susan
- Blackfoot Daisy
- Blanket Flower
- Blanket flower
- Blanket Flower / Gaillardia
- Blenheim Apricot
- Blue Chalksticks
- Blue Elf Aloe
- Blue Fescue
- Blue grama
- Blue Hesper Palm
- Blue Palo Verde
- Blue Passion Vine
- Bok choy (pak choi)
- Boston Fern
- Bottle Tree
- Bougainvillea
- Bougainvillea
- Boysenberry
- Brittlebush
- Broccoli
- Brussels sprouts
- Buckhorn Cholla
- Buffalo grass
- Bulb onion
- Bull grass
- Bunny Ears Prickly Pear
- Bush bean
- Bush dalea
- Bush Muhly
- Cabbage
- Calathea (Rattlesnake Plant)
- Calendula (Pot Marigold)
- California Fan Palm
- Canary Island Date Palm
- Candelilla
- Canna lily
- Cantaloupe (muskmelon)
- Cape Aloe
- Cape plumbago
- Cardon
- Carrot
- Cascalote
- Cat's Claw Vine
- Catclaw Acacia
- Cauliflower
- Celosia / Cockscomb
- Century Plant
- Chain Fruit Cholla
- Chaste Tree
- Chihuahuan sage
- Chilean Mesquite
- Chinaberry
- Chinese Evergreen
- Chinese Jujube 'Li'
- Chinese pistache
- Chitalpa
- Chives
- Chocolate Flower
- Christmas cactus
- Chuparosa
- Cilantro / Coriander
- Claret Cup Hedgehog
- Coleus
- Common bermuda grass
- Common Fig 'Black Mission'
- Common yarrow
- Compass Barrel Cactus
- Coral Drift Groundcover Rose
- Coreopsis (Tickseed)
- Corn Plant (Dracaena)
- Cosmos
- Creeping Fig
- Creeping Germander
- Creosote bush
- Croton
- Cucumber
- Curly Kale
- Damianita
- Date Palm
- Daylily
- Deer grass
- Desert Bluebells
- Desert Cassia
- Desert Four O'Clock
- Desert Globemallow
- Desert Gold Peach
- Desert Hackberry
- Desert honeysuckle
- Desert lavender
- Desert Marigold
- Desert Milkweed
- Desert Museum Palo Verde
- Desert ruellia
- Desert Senna
- Desert Spoon (Sotol)
- Desert Willow
- Desert Zinnia
- Dianthus (Pinks)
- Dill
- Dorsett Golden Apple
- Double Knock Out Rose
- Dragon Fruit (Pitaya)
- Dumb Cane
- Dusty Miller
- Dwarf Fountain Grass
- Dwarf Mondo Grass
- Dwarf Myrtle
- Dwarf Oleander
- Dwarf Pittosporum
- Eggplant
- Elephant Ear
- Elephant Food
- Engelmann's Hedgehog
- Engelmann's Prickly Pear
- English Ivy
- English Lavender
- English Thyme
- Epazote
- Eureka Lemon
- Evergreen elm
- Fairy duster
- Fava bean (broad bean)
- Feather Bush
- Feather Reed Grass
- Feathery cassia
- Fennel
- Fiddle-Leaf Fig
- Firebush
- Firecracker Penstemon
- Fishhook Barrel Cactus
- Flaming Katy Kalanchoe
- Flat-Leaf (Italian) Parsley
- Foothill Palo Verde
- Four o'clock
- Four-wing saltbush
- French / African Marigold
- French Tarragon
- Fruiting Olive 'Manzanillo'
- Fruitless Mulberry
- Fuyu Persimmon
- Garden Sage
- Garden verbena
- Gardenia
- Garlic
- Garlic Chives
- Gazania
- Geranium
- Ghost plant
- Giant Hesperaloe
- Globe Amaranth
- Glossy Abelia
- Glossy Privet
- Goji Berry
- Golden Barrel Cactus
- Golden Pothos
- Goodding's Verbena
- Greek Oregano
- Green Cloud Texas Sage
- Green Desert Spoon
- Guadalupe Palm
- Hardy Ice Plant
- Heartleaf Philodendron
- Heavenly Bamboo
- Holly Oak
- Hollywood juniper
- Honey Mesquite
- Hood Pear
- Hopbush
- Hoya (Wax Plant)
- Hybrid bermuda grass 'Tifway 419'
- Iceberg Floribunda Rose
- Iceland Poppy
- Indian Fig Prickly Pear
- Indian Hawthorn
- Ironwood
- Italian Cypress
- Ixora
- Jacaranda
- Jade Plant
- Japanese Boxwood
- Japanese Mock Orange
- Jojoba
- Joseph's Coat
- Joseph's Coat Climbing Rose
- Jujube
- Julia Child Floribunda Rose
- Katy Apricot
- Kikuyu grass
- Kinnow Mandarin
- Knock Out Rose
- Kohlrabi
- Lady Banks Rose (Yellow)
- Lady Banks' Rose
- Lantana
- Lantana 'New Gold'
- Larkspur
- Lavender Trumpet Vine
- Leek
- Lemon Balm
- Lemongrass
- Lettuce (Loose-leaf / Romaine)
- Lindheimer muhly
- Lisbon Lemon
- Lisianthus / Prairie Gentian
- Littleleaf Cordia
- Lobelia
- Loquat
- Maiden Grass
- Malabar Spinach
- Mandevilla
- Marsh Ruby Red Grapefruit
- Mealycup Sage (annual blue salvia)
- Mediterranean fan palm
- Medjool Date Palm
- Mexican (Key) Lime
- Mexican bird of paradise
- Mexican Bush Sage
- Mexican Evening Primrose
- Mexican Fan Palm
- Mexican Feather Grass
- Mexican Gold Poppy
- Mexican Hat
- Mexican Palo Verde
- Mexican snowball
- Mexican Sunflower
- Mexican Tarragon
- Meyer Lemon
- Minneola Tangelo
- Mister Lincoln Hybrid Tea Rose
- Monstera (Swiss Cheese Plant)
- Moon Cactus (grafted)
- Moro Blood Orange
- Moss Rose
- Murphey's Agave
- Nagami Kumquat
- Narrowleaf / Mexican Zinnia
- Nemesia
- Netleaf Hackberry
- New Gold Lantana
- Night-Blooming Cereus
- Ocahui Agave
- Ocotillo
- Octopus Agave
- Okra
- Old Man Cactus
- Oleander
- Organ Pipe Cactus
- Ornamental Cabbage/Kale
- Oso Easy Double Red Rose
- Ox Tongue Gasteria
- Paddle Plant
- Palmer's Agave
- Palo Blanco
- Pansy
- Paperflower
- Parlor Palm
- Parry's Agave
- Parry's Penstemon
- Passionfruit (Purple/Edible)
- Peace Hybrid Tea Rose
- Peace Lily
- Pencil Cholla
- Pentas
- Perennial ryegrass (winter overseed)
- Perle von Nurnberg echeveria
- Peruvian Apple Cactus
- Petunia
- Pindo palm
- Pineapple Guava
- Pineapple Quince
- Pineleaf Milkweed
- Pink Muhly
- Pink muhly (Regal Mist)
- Pink Trumpet Vine
- Plumeria (Frangipani)
- Pomegranate 'Wonderful'
- Prairie Zinnia
- Prayer Plant
- Primrose
- Princess flower
- Pumpkin
- Purple Fountain Grass
- Purple Lilac Vine
- Purple Three-awn
- Purslane (trailing)
- Pygmy Date Palm
- Pyracantha
- Quail bush
- Queen Elizabeth Grandiflora Rose
- Queen Palm
- Queen Victoria Agave
- Queen's Wreath
- Radish
- Rainbow Hedgehog Cactus
- Ranunculus (Persian Buttercup)
- Raywood Ash
- Red Bird of Paradise
- Red Tip Photinia
- Red Yucca
- Ribbon Palm
- Rocky Mountain Penstemon
- Rosemary
- Rubber Plant
- Sacred Datura
- Sago Palm
- Saguaro
- Sand Dropseed
- Santa Rita prickly pear
- Santa Rosa Plum
- Scarlet Sage / Annual Salvia
- Schefflera (Umbrella Plant)
- Screwbean Mesquite
- Senita
- Shasta daisy
- Shaw's Agave
- Shoestring Acacia
- Shrubby germander
- Sideoats Grama
- Signet Marigold
- Silver Carpet (Dymondia)
- Smooth Agave
- Snail Vine
- Snake Plant
- Snap pea / Snow pea
- Snapdragon
- Soaptree Yucca
- Society garlic
- Sour (Seville) Orange
- Southern highbush blueberry
- Southern live oak
- Spanish Dagger (Mojave Yucca)
- Spearmint
- Spider Flower
- Spider Plant
- Spinach
- St. Augustine grass
- Staghorn Cholla
- Star jasmine
- Stevia
- Stock
- Strawberry 'Sequoia'
- String of Pearls
- Sunflower (annual)
- Superb Penstemon
- Sweet Acacia
- Sweet Alyssum
- Sweet Basil
- Sweet Corn
- Sweet Marjoram
- Sweet Pea
- Sweet Potato
- Sweet Viburnum
- Swiss Chard
- Tall fescue
- Teddy Bear Cholla
- Tepary Bean
- Texas Betony
- Texas Ebony
- Texas Mountain Laurel
- Texas Sage (Texas Ranger)
- Thompson Seedless Grape
- Thorncrest Agave
- Thornless Blackberry 'Arapaho'
- Tipu Tree
- Tomatillo
- Tomato
- Totem Pole Cactus
- Trailing Acacia
- Trailing Gazania
- Trailing Germander
- Trailing Indigo Bush
- Trailing Lantana
- Trailing Myoporum
- Trailing periwinkle (vinca groundcover)
- Trailing Petunia / Wave-type (Million Bells)
- Trailing Rosemary
- Trailing Smokebush
- Triangle-leaf bursage
- Tropical Guava
- Tropical Hibiscus
- True Myrtle
- Tufted Evening Primrose
- Turnip
- Turpentine bush
- Twin-Flowered Agave
- Valencia Orange
- Valentine bush
- Velvet Mesquite
- Viola (Johnny-jump-up)
- Washington Navel Orange
- Watermelon
- Weber Agave
- Weeping Fig
- Western Schley Pecan
- Whirling Butterflies
- Whitethorn Acacia
- Willow Acacia
- Windmill Palm
- Winter squash (butternut)
- Wolfberry
- Yardlong Bean
- Yellow Bells
- Yellow bird of paradise
- Yellow Morning Glory
- Yellow Orchid Vine
- Zebra Plant Haworthia
- Zinnia (common garden zinnia)
- Zoysia grass
- Zucchini
- ZZ Plant
Plant data is compiled from University of Arizona Cooperative Extension & Pima County Master Gardeners, AMWUA, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and Tucson botanical gardens. Always confirm placement, planting season, and watering for your specific site — or ask us for a free estimate.