List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers

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

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

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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