Arizona

Native plants in Surprise

198 plants are genuinely native to this area — not merely able to survive here. They are grouped below by what they do in a garden, from canopy trees down to groundcovers.

Best represented here: perennials (92), shrubs (80), grasses (20) · 49 of them need no watering beyond Surprise’s own rainfall

Showing 10 plants · 188 more are native here but not in the catalog yet

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Trees2

Canopy and structure

Bubba Desert Willow

Chilopsis linearis 'Bubba'

Sugar Hackberry

Celtis laevigata

Shrubs3

Backbone planting

Desert Mallow

Sphaeralcea ambigua

No watering needed

Bubba Desert Willow

Chilopsis linearis 'Bubba'

Golden Crownbeard

Verbesina encelioides

Grasses2

Movement and texture

Deergrass

Muhlenbergia rigens

Alkali Sacaton

Sporobolus airoides

Perennials6

Seasonal colour

California Poppy

Eschscholzia californica

Desert Mallow

Sphaeralcea ambigua

No watering needed

Common Sunflower

Helianthus annuus

White Sagebrush

Artemisia ludoviciana 'Valerie Finnis'

Texas Betony

Stachys coccinea

Golden Crownbeard

Verbesina encelioides

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