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Plant Lists

This guide organizes, categorizes and provides information about plants from the Maricopa Native Seed Library.

Full Sun Plants

One challenge of gardening in the desert is finding plants that can take full sun, especially in the summer. Surprisingly many plants that you would Globe mallow, a full sun plantthink could handle full sun actually can get sunburned in the summer (including many cacti and succulents). Therefore is is great to know which plants can tolerate full, direct sun. Below is a list of plants in the seed library that can take full sun with a link to the plant's profile.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Globe mallow, by Danielle Carlock.