List of drought resistant food crops

Here is a list compiled by the University of California. "The list is not exhaustive.... For additional possibilities, consult seed companies or nurseries that specialize in plants suitable for desert or dry climate areas."

Beans

Bush Beans

White Half Runner Snap

Butter Beans

Jackson Wonder Bush

Garbanzo Beans

Ceci

Lima Beans

• Alabama Black-Eyed Butter
• Carolina Sieva
• Christmas
• Fordhook 242 Bush
• Henderson Bush
• Jackson Wonder
• Pima Orange
• Willow Le

Pole Beans

• Blue Coco
• Garden of Eden Romano
• Louisiana Purple Pod
• McCaslan Snap
• Rattlesnake
• Selma Zesta
• Selma Zebra

Tepary Beans

– need warm nights

• Big Fields White
• Black
• Blue Speckled
• Brown Speckled
• Cocopah Brown
• Colonia Morelos Speckled
• Mitla Black
• Pinacate
• Sacaton Brown
• Tohono O’odham White

Broccoli

Waltham 29—when fall-planted

Chard

– Almost all varieties listed in desert or dry climate catalogs

Corn

• Anasazi Sweet
• Daymon Morgan’s Kentucky
• Butcher
• Hopi Blue Flour
• Hopi Pink
• Painted Mountain Flour
• Pinky Popcorn
• Silver Queen Hybrid Sweet
• Tennessee Red Cob

Cowpeas

– need warm nights

Pink-Eye Purple-Hull

Cucumber

• Armenian
• Lemon

Eggplant

Listada de Gandia

Grains

Amaranth

• Mayo
• Red Stripe Leaf
• Tampala

Barley

• Ethiopian Hulless
• Jet
• Milan

Quinoa

– all varieties

Wheat

• Hard Red Spring
• Kamut
• Vaughan Turkey
• White Sonoran

Herbs

• Basil – Mrs. Burns’ Lemon
• Borage
• Catnip
• Chamomile, German
• Chives
• Hyssop