This list is a good representation of low-water consuming plants that are easily available.

Please check with your local nursery for their suggestions about what is best suited to your area.
 

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Flowering Plants

• Achillea (yarrow)

• Aloe

• Callistemon citrinus (lemon bottlebrush)

• Cassia artemisioides (feathery cassia)

• Centranthus Tuber (red valerian)

• Cistus (rockrose)

• Convolvulus cneorum (bush morning glory)

• Cortaderia selloana (pampas grass)

• Coreopsis verticillata

• Cotinus coggygria (smoke tree)

• Cytisus and spartium (broom)

• Echium fastuosum(pride of Madeira)

• Escallonia

• Eriogonum (buckwheat)

• Fremontodendrom (fremontia)

• Garrya elliptica

• Kniphofia uvaria (red-hot poker)

• Lantana

• Lavandula (lavender)

• Lemonium perezii (sea lavender)

• Nerium oleander (oleander)

• Ochna serrulata (Mickey Mouse plant)

• Pennisetum setaceum (fountain grass)

• Plumbago auriculatta (cape plumbago)

• Poinciana gilliesii (bird of paradise bush)

• Romneya coulteri (Matilija poppy)

• Satureja montana (winter savory)

• Teucrium fruticans (bush germander)

 

Foliage Plants

• Agave

• Arbutus unedo (strawberry tree)

• Artemisia (wormwood)

• Atriplex (saltbush)

• Centaurea gymnocarpa

• Dodonaea viscosa (hopseed bush)

• Elaeagnus

• Pittosporum (some species)

• Portulacaria afra (elephant's food)

• Prunus lyoni, P. ilicifolia, P. caroliniana

• Rhamnus alaternus, R. crocea ilicifolia

• Rhus ovata (sugar bush)

• Senecio cineraria (dusty miller)

• Xylosma congestum

• Yucca
   

Trees

• Acacia (certain species)

• Casaurina (Beefwood)

• Cedrus deodara

• Certonia siliqua (carob)

• Cercis occidentalis (western redbud)

• Cercidium (palo verde)

• Cupressus glabra (Arizona cypress)

• Eriobotrya japonica (loquat)

• Eucalyptus

• Geijera parvifolia

• Hakea (tree types)

• Heteromeles arbutifolia (toyon)

• Juglans hindsii (California black walnut)

• Lyonothamnus floribundus asplenifolius (Catalina ironwood)

• Melaleuca linarifolia, M. styphelioides

• Olea europaea (olive)

• Palms

• Parkinsonia aculeata (Mexican palo verde)

• Pinus (pines)

• Pistacia chinensis (Chinese pistache)

• Quercus (oaks)

• Rhusiancea

• Robinia (locust)

• Schinus molle (California pepper)

• Sequoiadendron gigantrum (big tree)

• Tamarix apliylla (salt cedar)
   

Vines

• Bougainvillea

• Campsis (trumpet creeper)

• Solanum hartwegii (cup-of-gold vine)

• Solanum jasminoides (potato vine)

• Tecomaria capensis (cape honeysuckle)

• Vitis vinifera (wine grape)

• Wisteria
   

Ground Cover

• Baccharis pilularis (dwarf coyote brush)

• Gazania

• Hypericum calycinum (creeping St. Johnswort)

• Rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary)

• Santolina chamaecyparissus
   

Many Forms

• Ceanothus

• Cotoneaster

• Grevillea

• Juniperus (juniper)

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