Native Plants for the Utah Landscape

Many native Utah plants have potential for success in low-water landscapes.

For example, many types of Buckwheat (right) are adapted to arid environments and have showy flowers and seedheads.

Other native Utah plants that have potential in low-water landscapes include:

Serviceberries
- Amelanchier utahensis
- A. alnifolia
Buckwheats (Eriogonum corymbosum Lacy buckwheat, shown at right)
Utah holly (Mahonia fremontii)
Mountain lover (Paxistima myrsinites)
Pinyon Pine (Pinus edulis and P. monophylla)
Globemallows
- Sphaeralcea coccinea
- S. grossulariifolia
- S. munroana

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Additional Resources

CWEL Fact Sheets
Utah Native Plant Society
USDA PLANTS Database
USU Extension Range Plants of Utah (use the search bar to look up plants / not all plants listed are native)

Related Peer-Reviewed Publications

Morphological and genetic variation among Sphaeralcea Species in a high desert environment, Chalita Sriladda, Heidi A. Kratsch, Steven R. Larson, and Roger K. Kjelgren; HortScience
Evaluating Eriogonum Corymbosum Tolerance to Frequent Irrigation and Evaluating Its Significant Morphological Variations for Potential Cultivars Graham C. Hunter

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