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List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers

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See also: List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name

The wildflowers of the Sonoran Desert typically appear after a rain, some after the winter rains, and some after the summer "monsoons."

Amsinckia menziesii

Common name: common fiddleneck
Flowers bloom March through May

Anemone tuberosa

Common name: desert anemone
Flowers bloom February to April

Bahia absinthifolia

Common name: hairyseed bahia, silverleaf bahia
Flowers bloom spring through fall

Brickellia coulteri

Common name: Coulter's brickellbush
Flowers bloom March to November

Carlowrightia arizonica

Common name: Arizona wrightwort
Flowers bloom in the spring

Cryptantha albida

Common name: New Mexico catseye, New Mexico cryptantha
Flowers bloom in early spring

Cryptantha angustifolia

Common name: Panamint catseye, bristlelobe cryptantha
Flowers bloom in early spring

Daucus pusillus

Common name: American wild carrot
Flowers bloom March to May

Datura innoxia

Common name: pricklyburr

Dipterostemon capitatus

Common name: bluedicks
Flowers bloom February to May

Encelia farinosa

Common name: brittlebush
Flowers bloom in the spring

Eriophyllum lanosum

Common name: white woolly daisy
Flowers bloom February through May

Galium aparine

Common name: common bedstraw, cleavers, stickywilly
Flowers bloom in the spring

Geraea canescens

Common name: desert sunflower, hairy desert sunflower, desert gold

Glandularia gooddingii

Common name: Gooding's verbena, southwestern mock vervain
Flowers bloom winter, spring, and fall

Haplophyton crooksii

Common name: cockroachplant
Flowers bloom March to April and July to November

Isocoma tenuisecta

Common name: burroweed, shrine jimmyweed, burrow goldenweed
Flowers bloom in September through November

Justicia californica

Common name: beloperone, chuparosa
Flowers bloom in the spring

Machaeranthera gracilis

Common name: slender goldenweed, yellow spiny daisy
Flowers bloom February to December

Malacothrix californica

Common name: California desertdandelion

Marina parryi

Common name: Parry's false prairie-clover

Melampodium leucanthum

Common name: plains blackfoot, blackfoot daisy
Flowers bloom March through December

Monoptilon bellioides

Common name: Mojave desert star

Nama demissum

Common name: purplemat
Flowers bloom from February to May

Nicotiana obtusifolia

Common name: desert tobacco, coyote tobacco
Flowers bloom spring to fall

Penstemon parryi

Common name: Parry's penstemon
Flowers bloom February to April

Physaria purpurea

Common name: rose bladderpod
Flowers bloom January to May

Proboscidea parviflora

Common name: doubleclaw

Rafinesquia neomexicana

Common name: desert chicory, New Mexico plumeseed
Flowers bloom mid-February to May

Salvia columbariae

Common name: chia
Flowers bloom March–May

Senna covesii

Common name: Coues' senna
Flowers bloom in spring and fall

Senna wislizeni

Common name: Wislizenus' senna, shrubby senna
Flowers bloom in the mid to late summer

Silene antirrhina

Common name: sleepy catchfly, sleepy silene
Flowers bloom March to August

Sphaeralcea ambigua

Common name: desert globemallow, apricot mallow
Flowers bloom in the spring

Trixis californica

Common name: American threefold
Flowers after rains, most commonly in the spring

Zeltnera calycosa

Common name: Arizona centaury
Flowers bloom April to June

See also

List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name
Index: Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
List of southern LCRV flora by region — Lower Colorado River Valley.

References

Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: Flora of the Sonoran Desert Region
U.S. Wildflowers Reference List: Arizona — Reference List of websites for Arizona Wildflower Identification.
Pima Community College. Common Wildflowers of Tucson.
Floras - Arizona Native Plant Society
USDA Plants Database — plant profiles search engine, by common or botanical names, or by U.S. state.

External links

Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: Desert Wildflower Blooms — homepage, with focus article links.
Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: The Desert in Bloom
Sonoran Desert Florilegium Program — homepage: botanical illustrations.
Desert USA: Desert Wildflower Field Guide — Wildflower pictures sorted by Color.

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