Shoestring Acacia plants ✔ Heat-Loving (Reflected-Heat Tolerant) ✔

✔ Heat-Loving (Reflected-Heat Tolerant)   ✔ Drought-Tolerant   ✔ Pollinator-Friendly   ✔ Hummingbird-Friendly   ✔ Evergreen   ✔ Low-Maintenance

Foliage Semi-deciduous — may drop small leaves briefly in cold winters

mesquite flowers are a major nectar source for native bees

Cowhorn Agave needs very little supplemental water and thrives on minimal irrigation in most Phoenix-area neighborhoods

Blue Palo Verde is a specimen and canopy tree

Shoestring Acacia plants ✔ Heat-Loving (Reflected-Heat Tolerant) ✔Phoenix's Most Dramatic Weeping Evergreen Tree Shoestring Acacia for Desert Elegance Shoestring Acacia (Acacia stenophylla) is the most architecturally distinctive evergreen shade tree available for Phoenix Valley landscapes. Named for its long, narrow, ribbon like "shoestring" leaves that cascade downward in a graceful weeping form, this drought hardy native delivers year round evergreen presence, a striking silhouette, and fragrant pale yellow