Medium
Medium water-use plants are plants that need to be watered every 2, or 3 weeks. Plants are native to the mid and tall-grass prairie areas of the Great Plains and south and southeast Texas and other areas receiving 25 inches and more of rain.
agastache (hyssop)
rudbeckia (black-eyed Susans)
echinacea (other than our native Echinacea angustifolia)
many salvias
heuchera (coral bells)
geraniums
gaura
scabiosa
dianthus
campanula
many non-hybrid tea roses
some ornamental grasses and most of the traditional shrubs we’re familiar with
Low
Low water-use plants are plants that require an inch of rainfall or irrigation a month during the growing months. Plants that originate in semi-arid, cold desert and in higher elevations in the southwest (and other similar eco-regions of the earth) with alkaline clay and caliche soil and little organic matter do very well in our area.
Calylophus sundrops
Engelmann’s daisy
Scutellaria skullcap
Melampodium leucanthum Blackfoot daisy
Berlandeira lyrata chocolate flower
gaillardia blanket flowers
Ipomea leptophylla bush morning glory
Oenotheras
Penstemons
Zinnia grandiflora prairie zinnia
Origanum libanoticum hop or Lebanese oregano
Anisacanthus wrightii quadrifidius flame acanthus
Salvia greggii (Zone 5 or 6 for us) cherry or autumn sage
S. chamaedryoides
germander sage or New Mexican Blue Sage
many sedums
Veronica pectinata and V. ‘Blue Reflection’
Artemisia versicolor ‘Sea Foam’
Marrubium rotundifolia silver edged horehound
Caryopteris blue mist spirea
Nepeta faassenii ‘Select Blue’ a catmint variety
Centranthus ruber coccineus and alba Jupiter’s Beard
Cerastostigma plumbaginoides hardy blue plumbago