Updated 11/18/2009

Tucson Plant Materials Center

Tucson, Arizona

Established 1935
 

The Tucson Plant Materials Center has provided plant solutions for the unique environment of the Sonoran, Chihuahuan and Mohave deserts for the past 68 years. The Center has released a variety of conservation shrubs and grasses including ‘Santa Rita’ fourwing saltbush, ‘Loetta’ Arizona cottontop and ‘Stevan’ plains bristlegrass, and worked on issues ranging from wildfire rehabilitation, mining reclamation and riparian improvement to low water landscaping and improved range forage production.

Information About Plants

    Plants Database

    Arizona's prohibited, regulated and restricted noxious weed list can be found at http://www.azda.gov/PSD/quarantine5.htm

Plant Fact Sheets:  To view the following files, you will need a PDF reader such as the free  Adobe Acrobat Reader:

Blythe Germplasm (Desert Saltbush) (197 kb)
Cochise Germplasm (Spike Dropseed) (239 kb)
Loetta (Arizona Cottontop) (202 kb)
Pima Germoplasm (Pima Pappasgrass) (193 KB)
Saltillo Germplasm (Cane Beardgrass) (180 kb)
Santa Rita (Fourwing Saltbush) (186 kb)
Stevan (Plains Bristlegrass) (202 kb)
Native Grass Seed Production (104 kb)

   Los Lunas Plant Materials Center
   National Plant Materials Program

Special Features

To view the following files, you will need a PDF reader such as the free  Adobe Acrobat Reader:

Newsletter, Volumn 4, Issue 2 (1021 KB)
Plant releases (AZ releases are highlighted within document) (740 KB)
Newsletter, Volumn 4, Issue 1 (908 KB)
2006 Progress Review (352 KB)
Plant Solutions Brochure (477 KB)
Archived reports
Technical Notes
Native Seed Vendors (Excel spreadsheet version)
 

Contact:    Manuel Rosales
                 3241 North Romero Rd
                 Tucson, AZ 85705-9223
                    Telephone: 520.292.2999
                    FAX: 520.292.9099
                    Email: Manuel Rosales@az.usda.gov