Firewise plant material suitable for the Arizona high desert and mid-elevation mountains (3,000 to 6,000 feet above sea level) include the following grasses and grass-like plants: annual rye, Arizona fescue, blue grama/hairy grama buffalo, grass cane, beard grass, deer grass, little bluestem, plains bristle grass, sand dropseed, side oats grama, slender wheatgrass, spike muhly - Muhlenbergia spp., thread grass, and western wheatgrass. Shrubs that are suitable include: four-wing saltbush, agave parryi, algerita, Apache plume Opuntia spp., bear grass Cercocarpus spp. - mahogany Cliffrose Crape myrtle Currant - Ribes spp. Ephedra spp.- Mormon tea False indigo Fern bush Hesperaloe Mahonia - guild grape Potentilla - cinquefoil Rabbit bush Rhus trilobata - Three leaf sumac Salvia greggii - autumn sage Service Berry Wild rose Winter fat Yucca spp. Flowers & Perennials: Most ornamental flowering plants are considered to be firewise with proper maintenance. Ground cover plants include: cotoneaster, creeping thyme - Pink chintz Creeping Barberry Delosperma - Ice plant English Ivy Euonymus spp. Evening primrose Helianthemum - Yellow Rock Rose Lamb’s ear Lonicera - Honeysuckle Malephora - Ice plant Mat Daisy Rushia pulvinaris - Shrubby iceplant Snow-in-summer St. John’s Wort Stonecrop Verbena spp. Veronica spp. - Speedwell Virginia Creeper vine. Trees include: Algerita Arizona Ash Aspen AZ Walnut Chaste Vitex Chinese pistache Desert Willow Forestiera neomexicana -NM privet/olive Gambel Oak Honey Locust Lilac London Plane N.M. Locust Netleaf Hackberry Prunus chokecherry Purple leaf plum Red Mahonia Rocky Mountain or Big-tooth Maple

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