Culturally Significant Plants
Culturally significant plants are important ethnobotanical plant species that have been harvested and used by Native Americans for their traditional cultural activities.
Listed below are some of the southeastern Arizona plants that are culturally significant.
- Anemopsis californica – Yerba Mansa
- Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Milkweed
- Calandrinia ciliata – Fringed Redmaids
- Carnegiea gigantea – Saguaro
- Celtis laevigata var. reticulata – Netleaf Hackberry
- Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa – Buck-horn Cholla
- Dichelostemma capitatum – Bluedicks
- Helianthus annuus – Common Sunflower
- Lobelia cardinalis – Cardinalflower
- Nolina microcarpa – Sacahuista
- Populus fremontii – Fremont Cottonwood
- Proboscidea parviflora – Doubleclaw
- Prosopis velutina – Velvet Mesquite
- Ratibida columnifera – Upright Prairie Coneflower
- Rhus trilobata – Skunkbush Sumac
- Rosa woodsii – Woods' Rose
- Salvia columbariae – Chia
- Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis – American Black Elderberry
