Xeriscaping: Saves Water, Saves Time, and Saves Money!

Zone 1: Arid - this zone features the most drought-tolerant vegetation. This zone is located away from the house.
Zone 2: Transition - this zone is used to blend lush areas with drier parts of the landscape. Plant low and moderate water use plants here which need watering once a week or less.
Zone 3: Mini-Oasis - this zone includes the highest water use plants and lawn. It includes shady areas and areas that receive rainfall runoff from roof lines and downspouts. Try to place this zone near your house.

Watering Your Xeriscape

Plants for the Xeriscape
Tall Trees (over 45')

Bur Oak
Chinkapin Oak
Common Hackberry 'Prairie Pride'
Green Ash
Honeylocust 'Skyline'
Kentucky Coffee Tree
Sawtooth Oak
Medium Trees (30 - 45')

Ornamental Pear
Goldenrain Tree
Lacebark Elm
Osage Orange, thornless & fruitless
White Mulberry, fruitless
Small Trees (under 30')

Amur Maple
Flowering Crabapple
Green Hawthorn 'Winter King'
Redbud
Russian Hawthorn
Russian Olive
Sandhill Plum
Thornless Cockspur Hawthorn
Washington Hawthorn
Western Soapberry
Wild Plum
Large Shrubs (over 8')

Beauty Bush
Border Privet
Chokecherry
Common Buckthorn
Elderberry
Lilac
Mountain Ninebark
Rose of Sharon
Rough-leafed Dowood
Siberian Pea Shrub
Silver Buffaloberry
Staghorn Sumac
Wahoo
Western Sandcherry
Medium Shrubs (4 - 8')

Cherry Prinsepia
Dwarf Ninebark
Flowering Quince
Forsythia
Fragrant Sumac
Japanese Barberry
Korean Lilac
Mentor Barberry
Mockorange
Serviceberry
Shining Sumac
Spirea, Vanhoutte
Spreading Cotoneaster
Three Leaf Sumac
Small Shrubs (under 4')

Bluemist Spirea
Common Bladder Senna
Common Sea Buckthorn
Coralberry, Buckbrush
False Indigo
Golden Current
Gooseberry
Hardy Potentilla
Leadplant
New Jersey Tea
Prairie Rose
Pygmy Pea Shrub
Russian Sage
Evergreen Trees/Shrubs

Juniper
Limber Pine
Pinyon Pine
Ponderosa Pine
Mugho Pine
Mahonia
Manhattan Euonymus
Pyracantha
Soapweed
Yucca
Shade Groundcovers

Bishop's Weed
Lily-of-the-valley
Creeping Mahonia
Periwinkle
Potentilla
Sweet Woodruff
Sun Groundcovers

Creeping Junipers
Daylily
Candytuft
Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
Hen & Chicks
Liriope
Creeping Phlox
Rock Soapwort
Sedum
Thyme
Veronica
Wintercreeper
Ornamental Grasses

Blue Fescue
Blue Oat Grass
Feather Reed Grass
Fountain Grass
Indiangrass
Little Bluestem
Oat Grass
Ravenna Grass
Ribbon Grass
Sideoats Grama
Weeping Lovegrass
Information Provided by the Kansas State University Cooperative Extension Service
and
The New Mexico State Engineer Office Water Conservation Program
Sun/Part Sun Perennials

Basket of Gold
Gaillardia
Amsonia
Rudbeckia
Butterfly Weed
Candytuft
Coreopsis
Euphorbia
Missouri Primrose
False Indigo
Guara
Goldenrod
Liatris
Lambs' Ears
Lavender
Verbascum
Pitcher's Salvia
Poppy Mallow
Prickly Pear Cactus
Coneflower
Red Hot Poker
Yarrow
Annuals

Cleome
Coreopsis
Cosmos
Dusty Miller
Gomphrena
Marigold
Nicotiana
Portulaca
Sanvitalia
Verbena rigida
Vinca
Zinnia
Visit our Wildflower and Natives page for more information about native plants for xeriscape gardens!