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

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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

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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

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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

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Encelia farinosa

• Common name: brittlebush
• Flowers bloom in the spring

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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

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Geraea canescens

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

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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

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Justicia californica

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

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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

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Monoptilon bellioides

• Common name: Mojave desert star

Nama demissum

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

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Nicotiana obtusifolia

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

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Penstemon parryi

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

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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

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Salvia columbariae

• Common name: chia
• Flowers bloom March–May

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Senna covesii

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

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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

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Trixis californica

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

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See also

StatesFederal districtInsular areasTopics

General	* Flora of North America List of ecoregions in the United States (EPA) List of invasive species in North America § Plants List of endangered plants of North America List of Northern American nectar sources for honey bees

Floristic regions and provinces	Circumboreal Region North American Atlantic Region Rocky Mountain Floristic Region Madrean Region Caribbean bioregion Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Province Appalachian Province Laurentian Mixed Forest Province Great Basin Floristic Province California Floristic Province

Ethnobotany	Native American Cherokee Iroquois Navajo Zuni List of medicinal plants of the American West

Categories	Flora of the United States Ecoregions Plant communities Grasslands Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

Places

East of the Mississippi River	Wildflowers of New England Wildflowers of the Great Smoky Mountains Flora of Door County, Wisconsin List of lichens of Maryland Soldiers Delight: Graminoids, Wildflowers, Woody plants, Ferns and fern allies, Lichens

Missouri River valley	List of species described by the Lewis and Clark Expedition § Plants

Colorado	Flora of the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region

Puerto Rico	List of endemic flora of Puerto Rico List of grasses of Puerto Rico

Arizona and New Mexico	Flora of the Sonoran Desert (by common name) List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers Flora of the Arizona Upland

California

List of plants endemic to Hells Canyon List of California native plants List of species endemic to Mendocino County, California List of species endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area § Flora List of Little Picacho Wilderness flora List of plants on the Modoc National Forest List of San Francisco Bay Area wildflowers List of flora of the Santa Monica Mountains Lichens of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) Flora of the Sierra Nevada alpine zone Flora of the Colorado Desert List of plants of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)

Pacific islands	Endemism in the Hawaiian Islands § Plants List of Samoan plant common names