Low-Water/Drought-Resistant Plants

This list is a good representation of low-water consuming plants that are easily available. Please check with your local nursery for their suggestions about what is best suited to your area.

Flowering Plants

  1. Achillea (yarrow)
  2. Aloe
  3. Callistemon citrinus (lemon bottlebrush)
  4. Cassia artemisioides (feathery cassia)
  5. Centranthus Tuber (red valerian)
  6. Cistus (rockrose)
  7. Convolvulus cneorum (bush morning glory)
  8. Cortaderia selloana (pampas grass)
  9. Coreopsis verticillata
  10. Cotinus coggygria (smoke tree)
  11. Cytisus and spartium (broom)
  12. Echium fastuosum(pride of Madeira)
  13. Escallonia
  14. Eriogonum (buckwheat)
  15. Fremontodendrom (fremontia)
  16. Garrya elliptica
  17. Kniphofia uvaria (red-hot poker)
  18. Lantana
  19. Lavandula (lavender)
  20. Lemonium perezii (sea lavender)
  21. Nerium oleander (oleander)
  22. Ochna serrulata (Mickey Mouse plant)
  23. Pennisetum setaceum (fountain grass)
  24. Plumbago auriculatta (cape plumbago)
  25. Poinciana gilliesii (bird of paradise bush)
  26. Romneya coulteri (Matilija poppy)
  27. Satureja montana (winter savory)
  28. Teucrium fruticans (bush germander)

 

Foliage Plants

  1. Agave
  2. Arbutus unedo (strawberry tree)
  3. Artemisia (wormwood)
  4. Atriplex (saltbush)
  5. Centaurea gymnocarpa
  6. Dodonaea viscosa (hopseed bush)
  7. Elaeagnus
  8. Pittosporum (some species)
  9. Portulacaria afra (elephant’s food)
  10. Prunus lyoni, P. ilicifolia, P. caroliniana
  11. Rhamnus alaternus, R. crocea ilicifolia
  12. Rhus ovata (sugar bush)
  13. Senecio cineraria (dusty miller)
  14. Xylosma congestum
  15. Yucca

 

Trees

  1. Acacia (certain species)
  2. Casaurina (Beefwood)
  3. Cedrus deodara
  4. Certonia siliqua (carob)
  5. Cercis occidentalis (western redbud)
  6. Cercidium (palo verde)
  7. Cupressus glabra (Arizona cypress)
  8. Eriobotrya japonica (loquat)
  9. Eucalyptus
  10. Geijera parvifolia
  11. Hakea (tree types)
  12. Heteromeles arbutifolia (toyon)
  13. Juglans hindsii (California black walnut)
  14. Lyonothamnus floribundus asplenifolius (Catalina ironwood)
  15. Melaleuca linarifolia, M. styphelioides
  16. Olea europaea (olive)
  17. Palms
  18. Parkinsonia aculeata (Mexican palo verde)
  19. Pinus (pines)
  20. Pistacia chinensis (Chinese pistache)
  21. Quercus (oaks)
  22. Rhusiancea
  23. Robinia (locust)
  24. Schinus molle (California pepper)
  25. Sequoiadendron gigantrum (big tree)
  26. Tamarix apliylla (salt cedar)

Vines

  1. Bougainvillea
  2. Campsis (trumpet creeper)
  3. Solanum hartwegii (cup-of-gold vine)
  4. Solanum jasminoides (potato vine)
  5. Tecomaria capensis (cape honeysuckle)
  6. Vitis vinifera (wine grape)
  7. Wisteria

Ground Cover

  1. Baccharis pilularis (dwarf coyote brush)
  2. Gazania
  3. Hypericum calycinum (creeping St. Johnswort)
  4. Rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary)
  5. Santolina chamaecyparissus

Many Forms

  1. Ceanothus
  2. Cotoneaster
  3. Grevillea
  4. Juniperus (juniper)

 

 

 

 

 

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