narrow linear leaves are grass like and produce a strong garlic smell if cut. Small pink orb like flowers have a sweet smell.
Rhizome
Liriope muscari
Lillyturf
Thinner but taller leaves than the Lily of the nile. Sun and alkiline damage is severe in Las Vegas unless in complete sun and drip irrigation that is flushed well.
Asparagus densiflorus 'Sprengeri'
Asparagus fern
Ground cover, monocot, perennial. Needle like leaves and bright green. Fleshy tubers retain water making the plant drought tolerant. prefers sun but can handle shady areas.
Asparagus densiflorus 'Myeri'
Foxtail fern
Herbaceous perennial. Upright plumes that resemble fox tails and small red berries in the winter.
Fraxinus greggii
Gregg's Ash
Shrub. opposite leaves with flowers forming in leaf nodes. Background or screening plant.
WINGED RACHIS
Fraxinus angustifolia
Raywood Ash
3 leaves per node. 7-9 leaflets on each leaf. Whorled attachment
Fraxinus uhdei
Shamel Ash
12 in long leaf panicles, opposite attachment. More airy than others
Fraxinus velutina
Arizona Ash
Only Ash with female seeds and produces fruit, fuzzy young growth with velvet textured leaves. Rough bark.
Fraxinus velutina 'Modesto'
GULLES
Bright green leaves
Lacks hair on young leaves and shoots. Cultivar has slightly more compact crown the the species.
Shaggy bark
Fraxinus velutina 'Rio Grande'
Fan-Tex Ash
Opposite leaves, 3-5 leaves only. No hair on leaves Grafted. Darker green
Jasminum mesnyi
Primrose Jasmine
Will grow like a vine if given support, if not a mounding habit will develop.
Trifoliate leaves, opposite and dark green. Stems are square. Single yellow flowers. Blooms are not fragrant.
Olea europaea
European olive
stiff grey green leaves with pale undersides. Bark gets quite gnarled as it ages.