Plants For Creosote Bush Scrub

Cercidium floridum,  Palo Verde, is a small deciduous tree that can rarely get to 30', commonly 15-20 ft. Palo Verde's yellow flowers appear in March-May to liven up its green bark. The Palo Verde i... Learn more.

Native from southern California to Baja. Palo Verde has yellow flowers in 1" clusters, an open structure with small leaflets that appear only with moisture that make it a light screen for desert borde... Learn more.

Desert willow, Chilopsis linearis is a large deciduous shrub or small tree. There is one in McFarland 30 feet+tall, but usually they are a 15 foot or so small tree. Its willow- like, long, narrow l... Learn more.

Yucca Valley is a beautiful white Desert Willow from the south western edge of the Mojave desert. It was found in a high desert wash mixed with Big Berry Manzanita, Bladder sage and near the original... Learn more.

Rabbit brush is a nondescript two to four foot perennial that erupts in late summer with a passionate display of appealing yellow that has stopped many an artist and butterfly. It is native in many f... Learn more.

Owens Rabbitbrush native to the east side of the southern Sierra and through the White Mountains into Nevada. Synonym: Hybrid -Chrysothamnus nauseosus ssp. hololeucus X Ericameria cuneata. Learn more.

Coleogyne ramosissima, Blackbush, grows from our California deserts through Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. It will grow where nothing else will grow, sometimes in soil that looks just like concrete. Learn more.

Ragged Rockflower grows in rocky areas along the edges of the deserts of Southern California, Northern Mexico, Arizona and Southern Nevada. A gray bush that looks like the desert of a romantic wester... Learn more.

A coarse, trailing perennial, with gray-green, rough leaves, yellow flowers, and a large root, undergoes dormancy after flowering and fruiting. Occurs often in sandy areas. Produces a gourd, not edibl... Learn more.

Coyote Melon grows in many soils from the edge of the coastal sage scrub through the desert into Nevada and Arizona. A native gourd that develops a large root that supports the rather weird moth Melit... Learn more.

Indigo Bush is a four foot tall deciduous shrub with whitish stems and purple pea flowers. It grows in the western deserts in creosote bush scrub and Great Basin sage plant communities. As it lives in... Learn more.

As Delphinium cardinale but blue, more drought tolerant but less garden tolerant. Learn more.

Perennial, 6 in. high, 1 ft. across, western deserts to 5500 ft. needs good drainage and no summer water (along coast) or a little (inland) after established, very showy rock garden plant, gets very ... Learn more.

A common fire follower. Whispering Bells would be an excellent additive to seed mixtures for ersion control and and fire following seed mixture, if you can find it. Learn more.

Mountain bush sunflower is a perennial shrub, 4 ft. tall with yellow daisy flowers. Grey foliage and yellow flowers stand out in a garden. Needs sun and very limited water after the first summer. Gr... Learn more.

Brittlebush is commonly a small perennial shrub, 2-3 ft. tall, 3 feet wide with greenish-gray to whitish-gray leaves and 2-3 inch yellow daisy flowers. In the Mojave desert this bush makes the hil... Learn more.

Button Brittlebush grows in dry washes and mesas in the deserts of California and Arizona. Flowers are not showy, but the butterflies seem to like them. They smell like a freshly mowed lawn in a deep ... Learn more.

Panamint Diasy grows in calcium based,rocky soils and washes on the western edges of Death Valley. Learn more.

Evergreen shrub, 5 ft., dry areas, central and southern California, and stems used for tea. Ephedra spp. are good wildlife plants. Grows with Eriogonum fasciculatum polifolium, Encelia actoni, Bricke... Learn more.

Mormon tea, Ephedra nevadensis grows along the western edges of the California deserts and up into southeastern Oregon, across Nevada into Utah and down into Arizona. Mormon tea is a small leafless sh... Learn more.

Green Mormon Tea is an evergreen shrub, 4 ft., desert areas, Calif. to Utah, looks like leafless shrub. In many desert locations both species (E. californica and Ephedra virides) exist together. Ephed... Learn more.

Boundary Goldenbush is a 3 foot tall yellow flowered shrub. It likes full sun. As with many arid plants it is stress deciduous. When conditions become too dry Boundary Goldenbush drops some leaves and... Learn more.

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. We don't sell it. This picture is mostly to remember what it was. Click here for more about California Buckwheats Learn more.

This variety of California Buckwheat is the common one that grows in most of the populated areas of California and is hardy to 0 F(but a sustained freeze of days can kill it) and very drought toler... Learn more.

California interior buckwheat is as Eriogonum fasciculatum but grayer and tougher, hardy to -20 F . The two varieties of California buckwheat (polifolium and foliolosum) overlap in many areas, most no... Learn more.