Native range
Native plants of Arizona
70 wild species and 13 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Arizona, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 56 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
Showing 1 to 60 of 83 plants
How this list is made
Derived from each plant's native-range record, checked against Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS with every decision on a ledger; Arizona is read off the record's own range, and the order is how many of the state's counties record each plant, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 83 plants, 78 have been checked against outside sources; the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations.
Range data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 4.0, adapted) and USDA PLANTS. How the native range is credited.
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Recorded across Arizona
How many of the state's 15 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Arizona; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 65 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany
- Common Blue Grama Grass
- Sideoats Grama
- Sunflower
- Desert Four O'Clock
- Goodding's Verbena
- Blackfoot Daisy
- California Poppy
- Prairie Junegrass
- Yellow California Poppy
- Deergrass
- Desert Willow
- Velvet Mesquite
- Butterfly Weed
- Cardinal Flower
- Golden Columbine
- Quaking Aspen
- Rubber Rabbitbrush
- California Buckwheat
- California Coffeeberry
- California Fuchsia
- Desert Globemallow
- Douglas Fir
- Little Bluestem
- Smooth Sumac
- Wild Bee Balm
- Alkali Sacaton
- Apache Plume
- Firecracker Penstemon
- Parry's Agave
- Buttonbush
- Chokecherry
- Creeping Oregon Grape
- False Solomon's Seal
- Golden Currant
- Nodding Onion
- American Elderberry
- Redosier Dogwood
- Mexican Hat
- Sulfur Flower Buckwheat
- Arizona Rosewood
- California Flannelbush
- Switchgrass
- Tufted Hairgrass
- Bidens
- Chocolate Flower
- Common Sneezeweed
- Fernbush
- Indiangrass
- Lady Fern
- Prairie Smoke
- Purple Lovegrass
- Red Elderberry
- Showy Milkweed
- Soft Rush
- Buffalograss
- Spotted Joe Pye Weed
- Colorado Blue Spruce
- Idaho Fescue
- Potentilla
- Rocky Mountain Penstemon
- Boston Fern
- Kinnikinnick
- Northern Sea Oats
- Smooth Blue Aster
Garden forms of Arizona natives
56 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Arizona and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Abbotswood
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Autumn Beauty
- Baby Blue
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Arrow Juniper
- California Poppy (Cream/White)
- California Poppy (Rose/Pink Mix)
- Campfire Red Ember Bidens
- Carolina Sapphire Arizona Cypress
- Chicklet Gold Tecoma
- Claire Grace
- Crimson Comet Buttonbush
- Deschampsia Goldtau Grass
- Fat Albert
- Giant Sunflower
- Globe Blue Spruce
- Goldfinger
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Happy Face Yellow
- Heavy Metal
- Hoopsii
- Ivory Castle
- Lemon Queen
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Mammoth
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- Mikado
- Montgomery
- Moulin Rouge
- Northwind
- Orange Whisper
- Painted Orange Bidens
- Painted Red Bidens
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Whisper
- Purple Gleam
- Red Ace
- Ring of Fire
- River Mist
- Rose Chiffon
- Shenandoah
- Skyrocket Juniper
- Snow Flurry
- Soraya
- Strawberry Blonde
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Tangerine
- Teddy Bear
- Twilight Zone
- Velvet Queen
Plant groups native to Arizona
13 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Arizona; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
Keep exploring
Native to your own county
This page is the whole state. In the free garden planner, enter your ZIP and Garden Check lists these same plants for your location, marks the ones recorded growing wild in your county, and places any of them in your plan; its Browse tab answers for any of the 65 states, provinces and territories with no account.
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