Native Vegetation
Places to see some of our local native vegetation where plants are marked:
7366 N. Paseo Del Norte (northwest of Ina and Oracle intersection). 575-8468. They have extensive gardens and a plant nursery. The path in the southwestern section of the park highlights vegetation native to the Tucson Basin, plants have identification signs.
Dunbar/Spring Organic Community Garden and Mini-Nature Park
At the northwest corner of University Blvd. and 11th Ave. (just north of downtown Tucson). This is an all volunteer run neighborhood park and garden. The western end of the garden is the mini-nature park and features multiple use native plants found in the Tucson area. The plants are marked with identification signs that also highlight some of the plants’ ethnobotanical uses.
2021 N. Kinney Rd. 883-2702. Extensive gardens and exhibits. They have an excellent plant sale that is more or less an annual event.
2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9255. The northeastern corner of the park features more plants native to the Tucson area with a small south west ethnobotanical exhibit.
, 1201 N. Galvin Parkway, Phoenix. They have an excellent ethnobotanical exhibit called the “Plants and People of the Sonoran Desert Trail”.