The City of Arvada Plant List - Moderate Water Demand Perennials Groundcovers and Vines will help you to select drought-tolerant species for your landscaping projects.
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Bishop's Weed |
Aegepodium podograria |
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Lebanon Stonecress |
Aethionema coridifolium |
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Bugle Weed (any) |
Ajuga spp. |
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Lady’s Mantle |
Alchemilla mollis |
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Mountain Basket of Gold |
Alyssum mountanum |
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Pasque Flower |
Anemone pulsatilla |
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Windflower |
Anemone japonica, multifida, sylvestris, tomentosa |
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Golden Marguerite |
Anthemis tinctora |
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Columbine |
Aquilegia spp. |
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Rockcress |
Arabis caucasica/albida |
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Sea Pinks |
Armeria maratima ‘Splendens, Victor Reiter’ |
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Aster (any) |
Aster spp. |
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Rock Cress |
Aubretia deltoides |
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Basket-of-Gold |
Aurina saxatilis “Gold Ball’ |
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Miniature Mat Daisy |
Bellium minutum |
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Bergenia |
Bergenia cordifolia |
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Snowbank Boltonia |
Boltonia asteroides ‘Snowbank’ |
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False Forget-Me-Not |
Brunnera macrophylla |
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Harebell, Bellflower |
Campanula carpatica, glomerata, persifolia |
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Adriatic Bluebells |
Campanula poscharskyana |
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Trumpet Vine |
Campsis radicans |
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Pigmy Peashrub |
Caragana microphylla |
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Cupid’s Dart |
Catanache caerulea |
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Bittersweet |
Celastrus scandens |
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Hardy Bachelor Button |
Centaurea montana |
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Plumbago |
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides |
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Daisy/Mum (any) |
Chrysanthemum spp. |
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Lily-of-the-Valley |
Convalleria majalis |
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Colewort |
Crambe cordifolia |
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Larkspur |
Delphinium spp. |
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Rose Pink Daisy |
Dendranthema x rubellem ‘Clara Curtis’ |
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Coral Canyon Twinspur |
Diascia integerrima ‘Coral Canyon’ |
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Bleeding Heart (any) |
Dicentra spp. |
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Gas Plant |
Dictamnus albus/rubra |
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Spanish Peaks Foxglove |
Digitalis thapsi ‘Spanish Peaks |
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Spanish Draba |
Draba hispanica |
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Coneflower |
Echinacea purpurea, ‘Magnus, White Swan’ |
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Bowles Mauve Wallflower |
Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’ |
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Strawberry (wild/domestic) |
Fragaria spp |
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Sweet Woodruff |
Galium odoratum |
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Whirling Butterflies |
Gaura lindheimeri, ‘Siskiyou Pink’ |
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Hardy Gazania |
Gazania linearis ‘Colorado Gold’ |
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Cranesbill. |
Geranium spp |
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Avens |
Geum Chiloense ‘Lady Stratheden, Mrs. Bradshaw’ |
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Ground Ivy |
Glechoma hederacea |
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Dwarf Globularia |
Globularia cordifolia |
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Sneezeweed |
Helenium autumnale |
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English Ivy |
Hedera helix |
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Coral Bells |
Heuchera americana, micrantha, sanguinea |
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Plantain Lily |
Hosta spp |
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Hop Vine |
Humulus spp. |
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St. John’s Wort |
Hypericum ‘Hidcote’ |
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Evergreen Candytuft |
Iberis sempervirens |
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Iris |
Iris setosa, siberica |
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Beacon Sliver, White Nancy Nettle |
Lamium maculatum |
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Dead Nettle |
Lamium variegatum |
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Sweet Pea Vine |
Lathyrus latifolius |
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Shrub Mallow |
Lavatera thuringica |
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Edelweiss |
Leontopodium alpinum |
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Shasta Daisy |
Leucanthemum x superbum |
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Hardy Lily |
Lilium x ‘Stargazer, Sunray’ |
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Sea Lavender |
Limonium latifolium |
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Lilyturf |
Liriope spicata |
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Honeysuckle Vine (any). |
Lonicera spp |
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Lupine (any) |
Lupinus spp. |
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Rose Campion, Maltese Cross |
Lychnis coronaria, chalcedonica |
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Moneywort |
Lysimachia nummularia |
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Virginia Bluebells |
Mertensia virginica |
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Sun Daisy |
Osteospermum barberiae com., ‘Lavender Mist’ |
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Peony (any) |
Paeonia lactiflora |
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Poppy (any adapted) |
Papaver spp. |
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Boston Ivy |
Parthenocissus tricuspidata |
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Penstemon |
Penstemon cyananthus, digitalis, x mexicalle |
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Phlox |
Phlox paniculata, subulata |
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Obedient Plant |
Physostegia virginiana |
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Balloon Flower |
Platycodon grandiflorum |
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Jacob’s Ladder |
Polemonium caeruleum |
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Himalyan Border Jewell |
Polygonum affineiana |
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Cinquefoil |
Potentilla atrosanguinea, nepalensis, neumann |
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Himalayan Primrose |
Primula denticulata |
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European Pasqueflower |
Pulsatilla vulgaris |
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Pearlwort |
Sagina subulata |
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Sage |
Salvia gregii, sclerea |
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Soapwort |
Saponaria ocymoides |
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Saxifrage |
Saxifrage x arendsii, oppositifolia |
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Pincushion Flower |
Scabiosa spp. |
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Prarie Mallow |
Sidalcea malviflora ‘Partygirl’ |
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Alpine Catchfly |
Silene alpestris |
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Goldenrod (any) |
Solidago spp |
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Painted Daisy |
Tanacetum x coccineum |
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Germander |
Teucrium chamaedrys |
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Meadow Rue |
Thalictrum aquilegiafoilium, delavayi |
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Golden Banner |
Thermopsis divaricarpa, montana |
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Thyme |
Thymus praecox arcticus, ‘Minus, Pink Chintz’, skorpilii |
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Foamflower |
Tiarella wherryi |
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Spiderwort |
Tradescantia andersoniana, occidentalis |
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Western Valerian |
Valerian officinalis |
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Mullien (any) |
Verbascum thapsus/spp. |
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Speedwell |
Veronica allionii, austriaca, repens, ‘Red Fox, Tall Blue’ |
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Periwinkle |
Vinca major, minor ‘Bowles Variety’ |
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Sweet Violet |
Viola cornuta, corsica, odorata |
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Grape |
Vitus spp |
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Barren Strawberry |
Waldsteinia ternata |
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Lavender Wisteria |
Wisteria sinensis |
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Hummingbird Flower |
Zauschneria californica latifolia |
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