Arizona
Native plants in Tempe
255 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 (119), shrubs (102), grasses (31) · 51 of them need no watering beyond Tempe’s own rainfall
Showing 18 plants · 237 more are native here but not in the catalog yet
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Trees3
Canopy and structure
Shrubs6
Backbone planting
Grasses3
Movement and texture
Perennials11
Seasonal colour
Succulents1
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