- List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers
The wildflowers of the Sonoran Desert typically appear after a rain, some after the winter rains, some after the summer "monsoons."
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Amsinckia intermedia =
*Common names: Fiddleneck
*Flowers bloom March-May=
Anemone tuberosa =
*Common name: [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ANTU Desert anemone]
*Flowers bloom February to April=
Bahia absinthifolia =
*Common Names: [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=BAAB Hairyseed Bahia] , Dealbata's Bahia
*Flowers bloom spring through fall=
Brickellia coulteri =
*Common name: [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=BRCO Coulter's Brickellia]
*Flowers bloom March to November=
Carlowrightia arizonica =
*Common name: [http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch Arizona wrightwort]
*Flowers bloom in the spring=
Centaurium calycosum =
*Common name: Centaury
*Flowers bloom April to June=
Cryptantha albida =
*Common names: New Mexico Catseye, [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CRAL New Mexico Cryptantha]
*Flowers bloom in early spring=
Cryptantha angustifolia =
*Common names: Bristlelobe Cryptantha, Narrowleaf Pick-me-not, Panamint Catseye
*Flowers bloom in early spring=
Daucus pusillus =
*Common name: [http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch American wild carrot]
*Flowers bloom March to May=
Datura meteloides =
*Common name: Sacred Datura=
Dichelostemma capitatum =
*Common name: Bluedick
*Flowers bloom February to May=
Encelia farinosa =
*Common name: Brittlebush
*Flowers bloom in the spring=Eriophyllum lanosum=
*Also known as Antheropeas lanosum
*Common name: White Woolly Daisy, White Easter Bonnets
*Flowers bloom February through May=
Galium aparine =
*Common name: Common Bedstraw, Cleavers, Clivers, Goosegrass, Stickywilly, Stickyweed, Catchweed, and Coachweed.
*flowers bloom in the spring=
Geraea canescens =
*Common names: desert sunflower, hairy desert sunflower, or desert gold.=
Glandularia gooddingii =
*Common name: Gooding's Verbena, [http://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=profile&symbol=GLGO&display=31 Southwestern Mock Vervain]
*Flowers bloom winter, spring, and fall=
Haplophyton crooksii =
*Common names: cockroachplant
*Flowers bloom March to April and July to November=
Isocoma tenuisecta =
*Common names: burroweed, shrine jimmyweed, burrow goldenweed
*Flowers bloom in September through November=
Justicia californica =
*Common names: Beloperone, Chuparosa
*Flowers bloom in the spring=
Lesquerella purpurea =
*Common name: Purple Bladderpod
*Flowers bloom January to May=
Machaeranthera gracilis =
*Common name: Slender Goldenweed, [http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch?keywordquery=Machaeranthera+gracilis&mode=sciname&submit.x=15&submit.y=8 Yellow Spiny Daisy]
*Flowers bloom February to December=
Malacothrix californica =
*Common name: Desert Dandelion=
Marina parryi =
*Parry Dalea=
Melampodium leucanthum =
*Common name: Plains Blackfoot, Blackfoot Daisy
*Flowers bloom March through December=
Monoptilon bellioides =
*Common name: Mojave Desert Star=
Nama demissum =
*Common names: leafy nama, purple mat, and purplemat
*Flowers bloom from February to May=
Nicotiana obtusifolia =
*Common names: Desert Tobacco, Coyote Tobacco
*Flowers bloom spring to fall=
Penstemon parryi =
*Common names: Parry's penstemon
*Flowers bloom February to April=
Proboscidea parviflora =
*Common name: Devil's Claw=
Rafinesquia neomexicana =
*Common name: Desert Chicory, New Mexico plumeseed
*Flowers bloom mid-February to May=
Salvia columbariae var. columbariae=
*Common name: Chia, [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SACO6 Golden Chia]
*Flowers bloom March-May=
Senna covesii =
*Common names: Coues' Cassia, [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SECO10 Coves' cassia] , or Desert Senna
*Flowers bloom in spring and fall=
Senna wislizeni =
*Common names: Wislizenus Senna, Shrubby Cassia, or Shrubby Senna
*Flowers bloom in the mid to late summer=
Silene antirrhina =
*Common names: Sleepy Catchfly, [http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch Sleepy Silene]
*Flowers bloom March to August=
Sphaeralcea ambigua =
*Common names: Desert Globemallow, Apricot Mallow
*Flowers bloom in the spring=
Trixis californica =
*Common names: American Threefold, Trixis
* Flowers after rains, most commonly in the spring=References=
* [http://wc.pima.edu/~bfiero/tucsonecology/plants/wflowers.htm Pima Community College. Common Wildflowers of Tucson.]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/index.html USDA Plants Database]
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