Psacalium decompositum or Indian Plantain is common in the shady mountain forests of southeastern Arizona. You can impress your friends while on a hike by knowing what it is, but I don’t recommend gathering seed and growing it. Leave that to crazy native plant geeks who think it will make them rich.
The green dodo (Dodoneaea viscosa var. angustifolia) was a very common landscape plant around Tucson back when I first started working in a wholesale...
There are several species of Marah found in the western US, but only M. gilensis in Arizona. I call it wild cucumber, but another...
I walk by a native mulberry every day when I go to my office, the Books and Bones Retreat. I planted that Morus microphylla...