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The Arizona VIRTUAL Plant Festival Tour

The Arizona VIRTUAL Plant Festival TourThe Arizona VIRTUAL Plant Festival TourThe Arizona VIRTUAL Plant Festival TourThe Arizona VIRTUAL Plant Festival Tour

Now thru Fall 2022

The Arizona VIRTUAL Plant Festival Tour

The Arizona VIRTUAL Plant Festival TourThe Arizona VIRTUAL Plant Festival TourThe Arizona VIRTUAL Plant Festival TourThe Arizona VIRTUAL Plant Festival Tour

Now thru Fall 2022

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Tour 6 unique Arizona sites that celebrate desert plants.

Take the Tour

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Read 10 poems honoring native Sonoran Desert plants.

SONORAN DESERT POETRY

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Explore the full hall of exhibitors as part of the Arizona Virtual Plant Festival event.

Hall of Exhibitors

Take the Virtual Tour

Visit six Arizona sites that preserve, teach about and celebrate Arizona’s unique heritage of natural and cultivated plants.

① Verde River Riparian Area

② Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area

② Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area

Cottonwood, Arizona

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② Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area

② Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area

② Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area

Yuma, Arizona

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③ Desert Botanical Garden

② Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area

④ Boyce Thompson Arboretum

Phoenix, Arizona

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④ Boyce Thompson Arboretum

⑤ Mission Garden/Friends of Tucson's Birthplace

④ Boyce Thompson Arboretum

Superior, Arizona

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⑤ Mission Garden/Friends of Tucson's Birthplace

⑤ Mission Garden/Friends of Tucson's Birthplace

⑤ Mission Garden/Friends of Tucson's Birthplace

Tucson, Arizona

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⑥ San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area

⑤ Mission Garden/Friends of Tucson's Birthplace

⑤ Mission Garden/Friends of Tucson's Birthplace

Sierra Vista, Arizona

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The Sonoran Desert Boundary in Arizona

CELEBRATE the Sonoran Desert with 10 poems honoring native desert plants.

Poetry of the Sonoran Desert

Arizona Sycamore

Arizona Sycamore

Arizona Sycamore

by Amanda Jean Bailey

Read this poem

Brigham’s Tea

Arizona Sycamore

Arizona Sycamore

by Gary Paul Nabhan

Read this poem

Brittlebush

Arizona Sycamore

Desert Ironwood Monologue

by Kristi Maxwell

Read this poem

Desert Ironwood Monologue

Desert Ironwood Monologue

Desert Ironwood Monologue

by Jeevan Narney

Read this poem

Fairy Duster

Desert Ironwood Monologue

Fairy Duster

by Christine Baines

Read this poem

Jojoba

Desert Ironwood Monologue

Fairy Duster

by Erec Toso

Read this poem

Jumping Cholla

Jumping Cholla

Jumping Cholla

by Logan Phillips

Read this poem

Sacred Datura

Jumping Cholla

Jumping Cholla

by Cybele Knowles

Read this poem

Saguaro

Jumping Cholla

Velvet Mesquite

by Alison Hawthorne Deming

Read this poem

Velvet Mesquite

Velvet Mesquite

Velvet Mesquite

by Eric Magrane

Read this poem

Poems and illustrations from The Sonoran Desert, A Literary 

Field Guide edited by Eric Magrane, Christopher Cokinos, and Paul Mirocha. ©2016 the Arizona Board of Regents. Reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press. 


Special thanks for this exhibit to

University of Arizona Press

University of Arizona Poetry Center

Arizona Plant Festival 2022

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