List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers

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

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* Common name: common fiddleneck
* Flowers bloom March through May

## Anemone tuberosa

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* Common name: desert anemone
* Flowers bloom February to April

## Bahia absinthifolia

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

## Brickellia coulteri

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

## Carlowrightia arizonica

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* Common name: Arizona wrightwort
* Flowers bloom in the spring

## Cryptantha albida

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

## Cryptantha angustifolia

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

## Daucus pusillus

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* Common name: American wild carrot
* Flowers bloom March to May

## Datura innoxia

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* Common name: pricklyburr

## Dipterostemon capitatus

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* Common name: bluedicks
* Flowers bloom February to May

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## Encelia farinosa

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* Common name: brittlebush
* Flowers bloom in the spring

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## Eriophyllum lanosum

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* Common name: white woolly daisy
* Flowers bloom February through May

## Galium aparine

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

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## Geraea canescens

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

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## Glandularia gooddingii

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

## Haplophyton crooksii

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

## Isocoma tenuisecta

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

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## Justicia californica

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* Common name: beloperone, chuparosa
* Flowers bloom in the spring

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## Machaeranthera gracilis

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

## Malacothrix californica

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* Common name: California desertdandelion

## Marina parryi

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* Common name: Parry's false prairie-clover

## Melampodium leucanthum

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

## Monoptilon bellioides

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* Common name: Mojave desert star

## Nama demissum

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* Common name: purplemat
* Flowers bloom from February to May

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## Nicotiana obtusifolia

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

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## Penstemon parryi

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

## Physaria purpurea

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* Common name: rose bladderpod
* Flowers bloom January to May

## Proboscidea parviflora

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* Common name: doubleclaw

## Rafinesquia neomexicana

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

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## Salvia columbariae

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* Common name: chia
* Flowers bloom March–May

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## Senna covesii

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

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## Senna wislizeni

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

## Silene antirrhina

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

## Sphaeralcea ambigua

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

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## Trixis californica

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

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## Zeltnera calycosa

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* Common name: Arizona centaury
* Flowers bloom April to June

## See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flora of the Sonoran Desert.

* 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

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* 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

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* 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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