Introduction
Maricopa County Cooperative Extension, the City of Phoenix, and a team of stakeholders have collaborated to build this Tree Reference Guide for Maricopa County. This spreadsheet of tree information began as an earlier tree list created by the Maricopa County Air Quality Department, which has received substantial additions and revisions. The Guide is now available as a downloadable Excel file, allowing the user to filter and sort the downloaded information to suit their needs. We have attempted to list our sources of information by citing references throughout the list. Where a reference source is not listed, the information has come from a consensus of the committee building the list.
Low Water Small Trees
This spreadsheet of recommended small trees has been derived from the main Tree Reference Guide spreadsheet by selecting the following characteristics:
- Water use: LOW
- Powerline Friendly (small tree): YES
- Invasive, Weedy, or Suspect: NO
Tree Reference Guide
The Tree Reference Guide for Maricopa County comprises nearly 100 landscape trees which have been available from wholesale nurseries in central Arizona, and/or may be encountered in Phoenix metro area landscapes. Not all trees listed here are recommended and some have limited availability. We hope this resource will provide information useful for tree planting projects, landscape design, and decision making on the retention of trees in landscapes.
Project Contributers
We would like to thank the following members of the committee who contributed to this project:
- Richard Adkins - City of Tempe
- Justin Azevedo - The Design Laboratory
- Michael Chamberland – University of Arizona Maricopa County Cooperative Extension
- Paul Falsone - Arizona Sustainability Alliance
- Jeff Grass – Treeland Nursery
- Kayla Killoren - City of Phoenix
- Ryan Knowlton - SRP
- Cheryl Goar Koury - Arizona Nursery Association
- Lora Martens - City of Phoenix
- Scott Rowan - Cohere Life
- Lorena Saldana - Arizona Sustainability Alliance
- Jake Simon - American Forests
- Tom Tuoti – Trees Matter
- Joshua Uebelherr – City of Phoenix
- Travis Zelinskas - Arizona Public Service
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