The City of Arvada Plant List - Low Water Demand Perennials Groundcovers and Vines will help you to select drought-tolerant species for your landscaping projects.
Common Name |
Botanic Name |
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Sand Verbena |
Abronia fragrans elliptica |
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Wooly Yarrow |
Achillea tomentosa |
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Yarrow (any) |
Achillea spp. |
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Persian Stonecress |
Aethionema Grandiflorum |
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Double Bubblemint |
Agastache cana |
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Sunset Hyssop |
Agastache rupestris |
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Hollyhock |
Alcea rosea |
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Atlas Daisy |
Anacyclus depressus |
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Pearly Everlasting |
Anaphalis margaritacea |
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Pussytoes |
Antennaria spp. |
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Kinnickinnick |
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi |
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Prickly Poppy |
Argemone hispida/platyceras |
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Sage |
Artemisia spp. |
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Butterfly Weed |
Asclepias tuberosa/speciosa |
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Mat Saltbush |
Atriplex corrugata |
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False Indigo |
Baptisia australis |
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Poppy Mallow |
Callihroe involucrata |
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Fendler’s Sundrops |
Calylophus hartwegii fendleri |
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Bluebell, Harebell |
Campanula cochleariifolia, rotundifolia ‘Olympica’ |
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Paintbrush |
Castilleja spp. |
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Pink Bachelor Button |
Centaurea dealbata |
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Mountain Bluet |
Centaurea montana |
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Red, White Valerian |
Centranthus ruber ‘Albus’ |
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Snow-in-Summer |
Cerastium tomentosum |
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Virgin's Bower Clematis |
Clematis ligusticifolia |
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Coreopsis (any) |
Coreopsis spp. |
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Creeping Broom |
Cytisus decumbens |
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Ice Plant |
Delosperma cooperi, floribundum |
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Hardy Ice Plant |
Delosperma nubigenum |
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Mock Strawberry |
Duchesnea indica |
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Globe Thistle |
Echinops ritro, exaltata |
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Cut-leaf Daisy, Showy Fleabane |
Erigeron compositus, speciosus |
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Cushion, Burrotail Spurge |
Euphorbia polychroma, myrsinites |
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Fire Weed |
Epilobium angustifolium |
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Alpine Wallflower |
Erysimum kotchyanum |
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Poppy |
Eschscholzia californica, ‘Mission Bells’ |
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Wintercreeper, Euonymus |
Euonymus fortunei 'Colorata, kewensis’ |
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Snow-on-the-Mountain |
Euphorbia marginata |
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Cushion Spurge |
Euphobia polychroma |
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Dwarf Fleeceflower |
Fallopia japonica compacta |
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Blanket Flower (any) |
Gaillardia spp. |
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Avens |
Geum triflorum |
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Snakeweed |
Gutierrezia sarothrae |
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Baby's Breath |
Gypsophila spp. |
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Sunrose (any) |
Helianthemum spp. |
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Maximilian Sunflower |
Helianthus maximiliana |
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False Sunflower |
Heliopsis helianthoides ‘Summer Sun’ |
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Daylily (any). |
Hemerocallis spp |
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Scarlet Gilia |
Ipomopsis aggregata, gilia |
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Iris |
Iris germanica, pallida, pumila |
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Evergreen Jasmine |
Jasmine fruticans |
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Torch Lily |
Kniphofia ‘Corallina’ |
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Red Hot Poker |
Kniphofia uvaria |
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Lavender |
Lavendula spp. |
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Gayfeather |
Liatris punctata/spicata |
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Yellow Flax |
Linum flavum |
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Blue Flax |
Linum perenne |
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Santa Fe Aster |
Machaeranthera bigelovii |
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Creeping Colorado Holly |
Mahonia repens |
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Desert Four O'Clock |
Mirabilis miltiflora |
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Bee-Balm |
Monarda spp. |
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Catmint |
Nepeta x faassenii |
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Bear Grass |
Nolina microcarpa |
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Evening Primrose (any) |
Oenothera spp. |
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Cactus |
Opuntia spp. |
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Lambert’s Locoweed |
Oxytropis lambertii |
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Virginia Creeper |
Parthenocissus quinquefolia engelmanni |
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Penstemon |
Penstemon barbatus, pinnafolius |
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Russian Sage |
Perovskia atriplicifolia |
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Himalayan Border Jewel |
Persicaria affinis |
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Native Purple Coneflower |
Petalostemon purpurea |
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Creeping Philox |
Philox subulata |
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Annual Silver Dollar Plant |
Plectranthus argentatus |
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Himalayan Border Jewel |
Polygonum affine |
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Silver Lace Vine |
Polygonum aubertii |
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Fleeceflower |
Polygonum reynoutria |
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Cinquefoil |
Potentilla hippeana, neumanniana |
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Creeping Potentilla |
Potentilla verna |
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Lacy Self-Heal |
Prunella laciniata |
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Creeping Buttercup |
Ranunculus repens |
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Prairie Coneflower |
Ratibida columnifera, pulcherrima |
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Black Eyed Susan |
Rudbeckia spp. |
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Salvia |
Salvia argentea, nemorosa |
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Lavender Cotton |
Santolina chamaecyparissus, rosmarinifolia |
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Dwarf Pincushion Flower |
Scabiosa lucida |
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Stonecrop |
Sedum spp. |
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Hens & Chicks (any) |
Sempervivum spp. |
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Threadleaf Groundsel |
Senecio longilobus |
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Cowboy's Delight |
Sphaeralcea coccinea |
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Orange Globe Mallow |
Sphaeralcea munroana |
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Lamb's Ears |
Stachys Byzantina |
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Prince's Plume |
Stanleya pinnata |
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Stoke’s Blue Danube Aster |
Stokesia laevis ‘Blue danube’ |
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Comfrey |
Symphytum grandiflorum |
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Partridge Feather, Snow Daisy |
Tanacetum densum amani, niveum |
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Thyme |
Thymus x citriodorus, pseudolanuginosus |
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Thyme |
Thymus serpyllum |
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Native Verbena |
Verbena bipinnatifida |
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Speedwell |
Veronica filiforms, liwanensis, pectinata, prostrata |
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Speedwell |
Veronica spicata, incana, ‘Sunny Border Blue’ |
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Creeping Veronica |
Veronica rupestris |