Biology:List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers
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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
Centaurium calycosum
- Common name: Arizona centaury
- Flowers bloom April to June
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
Dichelostemma capitatum
- 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
See also
- List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name
- 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.