This document provides a plant list for xeriscaping in Pullman, Washington. It begins by explaining that xeriscaping techniques reduce water consumption, maintenance needs, and use of fertilizers and pesticides. The list then categorizes suitable perennials, bulbs, grasses, shrubs, and trees for low-water landscaping. An important part of xeriscaping is grouping plants with similar water needs together to allow watering as needed and reduce waste.

1. Xeriscape
Parks & Recreation
Pullman, WA 99163
City of Pullman
240 SE Dexter
Plant List
When making use of xeriscape
techniques we benefit by reducing water
consumption, maintenance, use of
fertilizers and pesticides.
Pullman Parks & Recreation...Your Recreation Connection
Other Sources:
Crossroads Nursery, Pullman
SYG Nursery, Pullman
Fiddlers Ridge Farms, Potlatch
http://www.arboretum.wsu.edu/xeriscaping.html
http://www.wnps.org/cbasin/pdf/eastern_wa_native_plants.pdf
http://www.wnps.org/landscaping/nurserylist.html
http://nwpublicmedia.typepad.com/our_organic_northwest/xeriscaping/
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/ptlk/ptlk1900.html
http://eartheasy.com/grow_xeriscape.htm#c
http://extension.usu.edu/files/publications/publication/EC_458.pdf
www.plantsofthewild.com/
www.highcountrygardens.com/
"Water conservation
using creative
landscaping."
5/26/11 H:Forms:11 Parks Xeroscape brochure

2. Perennials
Achillea - Yarrow
Aquilegia - Columbine
Artemesia - Black Sage, Lemon Plant, Sagebrush, Wormwood
Aster - Aster
Cerastium - Snow in Summer
Dalea - Purple Prairie Flower
Shrubs
Aronia melanocarpa - Black Chokeberry
Dianthus - Pinks
An important part of using the Gaura - Wand Flower, Bee Blossom
Bush cinquefoils - Potentilla
xeriscape concept is to group plants Genista - Dwarf Broom
Caragana microphyla - Little leaf Siberian pea
with similar water needs together in Gypsophilia - Baby's Breath
Cercocarpus ledifolus - Curl leaf mahogany
beds. Allowing them to be watered as Helenium - Sneezeweed
Cornus sericea - red osier dogwood
needed reducing water waste. Helianthemum - Rock Rose, Sun Rose
Cotoneaster divaricata - Spreading Cotoneaster
Cotoneaster multifolia - Flowering cotoneaster
Heliopsis - False Sunflower
Bulbs Heuchera - Coral Bells Elaeagnus angustifolia - Russian Olive
Crocus Hyssopus - Hyssop Elaeagnus umbellate - Autumn Olive
Daffodil Kniphofia - Red Hot Poker Juniper
Eranthis - Winter Aconite Lavendula - Lavender Mahonia aquafolium - Oregon Grape
Muscari - Grape Hyacinth Liatris - Gay Feather Rhus aromatica - Fragrant Sumac
Tulip Marrubium - Horehound Rhus typhina - Staghorn Sumac
Grasses Nepeta - Catmint, Catnip Rosa rubrifolia - Red leaf Rose
Papaver - Oriental Poppy Rosa - many
Calamagrostis - Feather Reed Grass
Penstemon - Beard Tongue Sorbaria sorbifolia - Ural False Spirea
Festuca - Fescue
Perovskia - Russian Sage
Helictotrichon - Oat Grass
Phlomis - Jerusalem Sage
Trees
Nassella/Stipa - Lair Grass
Ratibida - Prairie Coneflower Abies concolor - White Fir
Sorghastrum - Indian Grass
Saponaria - Soapwort Corylus - Turkish Filbert
Sedum - Stonecrop Crataegus phaenopyrum - Washington Hawthorn
Stachys - Lamb’s Ear Elaeagnus angustifolia - Russian Olive
Remember, beauty does not have to be Larix - Larch
sacrificed when establishing a xeriscape Pinua flexilis - Limber Pine
landscape. When done correctly, they look no Pinus nigra - Austrian Pine
different from traditional landscapes Tilia tomentosa - Silver Linden
Quercus shumaridiisuumardi - Shumard’s Red Oak