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PLANTS FOR WILDFIRE SAFE LANDSCAPING

TREES PERENNIALS

Amur chokecherry {prunus maackii}
Aspen {populus}
Bird Cherry {prunus padus}
Box Elder {acer negudo}
Crabapple {malus}
Dogwood {cornus, many species}
Maple {acer, many}
Poplar {poplus}
Quercus bicolor*
Quercus rubra
Redbud {circis}*
Willow {salix spp.}
 
 
 

 
GROUND COVER

Carpet bugle {a juga repyans}
Creeping red fescue {festuca rubra}
Creeping thyme {thymus praecox arcticus}*
Ice Plant {delosperma spp.}*
Rice grass
Sedum {many species}
Squaw carpet {ceonothis}*
Snow in Summer {cerastium}
Tall fescue {festuca elatior}
Thrift {armeria}
Vinca {vinca major}
Virginia creeper {parthenocissus quiniquifolia}
Wheat gras {aglaonema}
Wild Strawberry {fragaria chiloensis}
Yarrow {achillea clavennae}
 

 Blue flax {linum perenne}
Candytuft {iberis}
Columbine {aguilegia caerulea}
Coreopsis {coreopsis auriculata}
Daylily {hermerocallis spp.}
Dusty Miller {artemisia stellerana}*
Gaillardia {g. Graniflora}
Iris*
Lambs ear {stachys}*
Lupin {I. argenteus}*
Moss pink {phlox subulata}
Penstemon {p. barbatus}
Poppy {callirhoe involucrate}
Primrose {primula malacoides}
Shasta daisy {chrysanthemum maximum}
Yarrow {achillea filipendulina}
SHRUBS

Bush cherry {prunus virginiana}
Bush honeysuckle {Ionicera}
Cotoneaster {cotoneaster dammeri}*
Currant {ribes}
Forsyhia {forsyhia x intermedia}
Lilac {syringa spp.}
Oregon Grape {Mahonia aquifolim}
Red hot poker {kniphofia uvaria}*
Roses
Rose of Sharon {hibiscus syriacus}
Serviceberry {amelanchier}
Stage horn sumac {rhus typhina}
Thyme {thymus vulgaris}*
Utah Agave {agave utahhensis}*
White Alder {tenuifolia}
White Yarrow {achillea mille folium}
 
 
 

*Drought Tolerant plants
 
 
 
 

*Talk to you local nursery for more suggestions on plants that will work in your yard