Rocky Mountain Bee Plant
Rocky Mountain Beeplant is useful for providing pollinator habitat, as a xeriscape garden plant, and as forb component of reclamation mixes. An annual with pink to purplish-pink flowers, it thrives in dry conditions because of its tap root that can access deep ground moisture. Rocky Mountain Beeplant has many traditional uses among the Navajo.
Purple Prairie Clover
Purple Prairie Clover is a versatile legume used for erosion control, wildlife habitat enhancement, livestock grazing, and landscaping. It develops a deep taproot which makes it resistant to heat, drought, and fire. It can help add nitrogen to the soil.
Purple Coneflower
Purple Coneflower has a long history of medicinal use, beginning with Native American tribes. It also makes an attractive ornamental, with its showy purple flowers on individual long stems. Although easy to grow, it is not drought tolerant and to thrive requires significant supplemental water in dry climates.
Prairie Coneflower
Prairie coneflower, when used in reclamation mixes, improves species diversity and wildlife habitat. It is also a desirable xeriscape landscaping plant with yellow flowers that attract pollinators.
Plains Coreopsis
Plains Coreopsis produces abundant 1-2″ yellow flowers with red centers. Not particularly drought tolerant, it is well adapted to damp soils with poor drainage. It grows quickly and readily reseeds itself.
Perennial Lupine
Perennial Lupine is slow to establish but, once it does, provides a showy display that requires little care. Its flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
Palmer Penstemon
Palmer Penstemon is a hardy plant with beautiful flowers that has a place in reclamation and xeriscape gardening. It is also a food source for deer, pronghorn, birds, and pollinators.
Munro’s Globemallow
Munro’s Globemallow is a native sub shrub important for wildlife. It is also useful in range revegetation and as a xeriscape ornamental.
Mexican Gold Poppy
The Mexican Gold Poppy is closely related to California Poppy. It is slightly smaller and more drought tolerant, and its blooms are slightly more yellowish. Its pollen is important to bees and it makes a great addition to a xeriscape garden.
Mountain Lupine
Mountain Lupine is a native Rocky Mountain wildflower that makes a good addition to a pollinator garden. It is poisonous to livestock, an attribute that also makes it deer-resistant.
Mexican Red Hat
Mexican Red Hat’s sombrero-shaped flowers are a colorful addition to a xeriscape garden. It is easy to grow, attracts pollinators, and is deer resistant.
Maximilian Sunflower
Maximilian Sunflower Helianthus maximiliani 18 inches or more 5 PLS lbs/acre 1 – Very Sunny Yellow
Lewis Flax
Lewis Flax Linum lewisii 10-18″ annually 4-6 PLS lbs/acre 1 – Very Sunny Blue
Dusty Penstemon
Dusty Penstemon is a native of the Four Corners region. It attracts bees as its primary pollinator, and its pretty lavender/bluish flowers can be a good addition to a wildflower garden.
Desert Globemallow
Desert Globemallow, also known as apricot mallow, is a native drought-tolerant perennial with brilliantly colored orange flowers. It attracts bees and checkered skipper butterflies. Besides a xeriscape ornamental, Desert Globemallow is a useful reclamation and erosion control species because it can compete with invasive weeds.
Coyote Tobacco
Coyote Tobacco is a native tobacco that has been used for ceremonial and medicinal purposes by Native peoples for centuries. In modern times it has also become a useful reclamation plant, as it prefers dry, disturbed areas.
California Poppy
California Poppy’s cheerful orange blooms brighten a garden. It is a low-maintenance, drought tolerant, deer resistant plant. Because it establishes quickly on disturbed sites it is also a useful reclamation species.
Blanketflower
Blanketflower, also called Gaillardia, is a bright yellow and red native perennial that grows 10 to 24 inches tall. It prefers well-drained soils and elevations between 1,300 and 9,000 feet. It is drought tolerant, colorful, and attracts pollinators.
Blackeyed Susan
Blackeyed Susan, a yellow flower with a dark center, is a hardy addition to a wildflower garden and can help control erosion on reclamation sites. It is easy to grow and attracts pollinators and seed-eating birds. It is not particularly attractive to deer, allowing it to thrive in areas with large deer populations.
Bachelor Button
Bachelor Button is a drought-tolerant, blue garden flower that is easy to grow, readily reseeds itself, attracts pollinators, and makes great cut flowers. It prefers full sun.
Aspen Daisy
Aspen Daisy is a lavender and yellow flower that is long-blooming and easy-to-grow. It is a perennial that attracts butterflies and is adapted to a wide range of environments.
Arrowleaf Balsamroot
Arrowleaf Balsamroot is a native, perennial yellow wildflower that can thrive at altitudes up to 9,000 feet. Although they mature slowly, once established Arrowleaf Balsamroot plants are very hardy, with deep roots that help them survive fire, trampling, grazing, and drought
Common Sunflower
The Common Sunflower is a native yellow wildflower that is both loved and hated: It is the Kansas State Flower, yet in some states it is considered a weed. It is an important food source for seed-eating birds and pollinators, and a favored component of naturalistic gardens. It is also useful in reclaiming disturbed sites.
California Bluebell
California Bluebell, though native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts, can be grown throughout the country. It is an attractive blue flowered addition to a pollinator garden, is easy to grow, and can reseed itself.
