Manzanita — Spanish for "little apple" — is one of Arizona's most distinctive mountain shrubs, with smooth mahogany-red bark, urn-shaped flowers, and tart apple-flavored berries used for cider, jelly, and medicine by Native peoples for centuries.

Mullein is one of the most recognizable and useful wild plants in Arizona's mid-elevation forests — a towering biennial with velvety leaves and yellow flowers prized for respiratory remedies, flower tea, and yes, its legendary usefulness as nature's softest trail wipe.

Prickly Pear is one of Arizona's most rewarding wild foods — the deep magenta fruit, sweet pads, and edible flowers have fed desert peoples for over 9,000 years, and are easily harvested, prepared, and preserved from summer through fall.

Creosote Bush is the most common and medicinally significant shrub in the Sonoran Desert — a drought-tolerant evergreen with powerful antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties used by Native peoples for thousands of years.