Invasive Desert Plants: African Sumac
Invasive plants in the Sonoran Desert, such as the African sumac endangers natives by competing for limited water resources and creating monocultures.
Desert Plants: Desert Honeysuckle
The colorful and drought-tolerant Desert Honeysuckles are ideal for attracting hummingbirds and other pollinators to your garden.
Desert Plants: The Desert Hackberry
The Desert Hackberry, Celtis pallida, is ideal for creating habitat for wildlife while helping pollinators.
Desert Plants: The Mexican Sunflower Tree
The Mexican Sunflower Tree (Tithonia Fruticosa) is a giant in this family, that can get to several feet tall and wide
Desert Plants: The Desert Lavender
A thornless, drought-tolerant native plant that attracts pollinators.
Desert Plants: Little Leaf Cordia
The tough flowering shrub in the Sonoran Desert that helps pollinators.
Desert Plants: Desert Willow
Easy growing flowering tree in the Sonoran Desert provides color, food and habitat for native species.
Desert Plants: Desert Fern
The desert fern, also known as feather bush, feather tree or tepehuaje in Mexico can reach heights of about 25 feet.
Desert Plants: Golden Fleece
The low growing shrub with yellow flowers thrives in the monsoon and attracts pollinators.
Desert Plants: Baja Fairy Duster
Colorful, drought-tolerant and good for pollinators.
Desert Plants: Creosote
It has one of the most recognizable smells in the desert, it attracts dozens of different types of bees, and it might have been eaten by native camels thousands of years ago.
Desert Plants: Organ Pipe
The organ pipe cactus is native to Mexico and the United States where many can be found in their namesake national monument in western Pima County, Arizona.
Desert Plants: Ironwood
The tree known in the U.S./Mexico borderlands as desert ironwood or palo fierro is one of many woody legumes found in washes and hillside drainages in the Sonoran Desert.
