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.
RECOMMENDED LOW WATER SMALL TREES (downloadable Excel File)
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.
TREE REFERENCE GUIDE FOR MARICOPA COUNTY (downloadable Excel File)
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
Please let us know if you have found the Tree Reference Guide to be useful for you,