Sonoran Native Plants is a University of Arizona Campus Arboretum tour.

Schedule

Sun Apr 13 2025 at 08:00 am to 09:30 am

UTC-07:00

Location

Old Main Building | Tucson, AZ

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The Sonoran Native plants tour features the native plants in the Campus Arboretum and celebrates desert ecology.
About this Event

When the University of Arizona was established, Dr. James Toumey, a botanist for the Agricultural Experiment Station, started a cactus display garden that, eventually became what we now know as the Joseph Wood Krutch (pronounced KROOCH) Garden. This tour features the Sonoran native plants in that garden and celebrates desert ecology and ethnobotanical wisdom.



Tour starts at the University of Arizona Memorial Fountain, west of Old Main at 8:00 am and last 60-90 minutes. Campus visitor parking is available in campus parking garages at a cost of $2 per hour. Please bring water and a hat.



Using a rating scale of 1 (least amount of walking) to 3 (more walking), this tour is rated 3.
Using a rating scale of 1 (least sun exposure) to 3 (more sun exposure), this tour is rated 3.



A campus map can be found at: https://map.arizona.edu/
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Old Main Building, 1200 E. University Boulevard, Tucson, United States

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