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 Image:Amsinckia intermedia 2003-03-04.jpg

'' 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 Image:Arizona Centaury centaurium calycosum.jpg

'' 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 Image:Cryptantha angustifolia.jpg

'' Daucus pusillus''

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

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Datura innoxia ''Datura innoxia'' (often spelled ''inoxia''), known as pricklyburr, recurved thorn-apple, downy thorn-apple, Indian-apple, lovache, moonflower, nacazcul, toloatzin, toloaxihuitl, tolguache or toloache, is a species of flowering plant in the fami ...
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* Common name: pricklyburr

'' Dipterostemon capitatus''

* Common name: bluedicks * Flowers bloom February to May Image:Dichelostemma capitatum 1.jpg Image:Dichelostemma capitatum 2.jpg Image:Dichelostemma capitatum 3.jpg Image:Dichelostemma capitatum 4.jpg

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Encelia farinosa ''Encelia farinosa'' (commonly known as brittlebush, brittlebrush, or incienso), is a common desert shrub of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It has a variety of historical uses. Description Brittlebush grows up to tall, wi ...
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* Common name: brittlebush * Flowers bloom in the spring Image:Encelia farinosa form.jpg Image:Encelia farinosa var. radians head 2002-10-10.jpg Image:Encelia farinosa on slope 2005-02-20.jpg Image:Encelia farinosa capitulum 2005-02-20.jpg

'' 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 Image:Galium aparine01.jpg Image:Galium.aparine.jpg Image:Galium aparine001.JPG

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Geraea canescens ''Geraea canescens'', commonly known as desert sunflower, hairy desert sunflower, or desert gold, is an annual plant in the family Asteraceae. The genus name comes from the Greek ''geraios'' ("old man"), referring to the white hairs on the fruits ...
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* Common name: desert sunflower, hairy desert sunflower, desert gold Image:Geraea canescens form 2.jpg Image:Geraea canescens form 1.jpg Image:Geraea canescens flower.jpg Image:Geraea canescens 2005-02-20.jpg

'' 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

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Isocoma tenuisecta ''Isocoma tenuisecta'', commonly called burroweed, shrine jimmyweed, or burrow goldenweed is a North American species of small, flowering perennial herbs in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Arizona, New Mexico, and Sonora. ''Isocoma tenui ...
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* Common name: burroweed, shrine jimmyweed, burrow goldenweed * Flowers bloom in September through November Image:Isocoma tenuisecta.jpg Image:Isocoma tenuisecta2.jpg Image:Isocoma tenuisecta3.jpg

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Justicia californica ''Justicia californica'' is a deciduous species of flowering shrub native to the deserts of southern California, southern Arizona, and northern Mexico. Its common names include chuparosa (or chiparosa, both colloquial Spanish terms for "hummingbi ...
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* Common name: beloperone, chuparosa * Flowers bloom in the spring Image:Justicia californica 3.jpg Image:Justicia californica 1.jpg

'' Machaeranthera gracilis''

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

'' Malacothrix californica''

* Common name: California desertdandelion

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Marina parryi ''Marina parryi'' is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Parry's false prairie-clover. It is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. This is a perennial herb producing s ...
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* Common name: Parry's false prairie-clover

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Melampodium leucanthum ''Melampodium leucanthum'', the plains blackfoot or blackfoot daisy, is an herbaceous perennial plant in the family Asteraceae found on limestone-containing rocky slopes in the Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert ( es, Desierto de Sonora) is a de ...
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* Common name: plains blackfoot, blackfoot daisy * Flowers bloom March through December Image:Melampodium-leucanthum.jpg

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Monoptilon bellioides ''Monoptilon bellioides'', the desert star, also called Mojave desertstar, is a desert flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Distribution It is native to stony and sandy plains in the Mojave Desert of California and the Sonoran Deserts of ...
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* Common name: Mojave desert star

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Nama demissum ''Nama demissum'' is an annual flowering plant. It is known by the common name purplemat, or purple mat. Distribution Purple mat, ''Nama demissum'', grows in the American desert southwest, such as the Mojave Desert, and parts of Mexico on dry ...
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* Common name: purplemat * Flowers bloom from February to May Image:Nama demissum 6.jpg Image:Nama demissum 3.jpg Image:Nama demissum 4.jpg Image:Nama demissum 5.jpg

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Nicotiana obtusifolia ''Nicotiana obtusifolia'', or desert tobacco, is a plant native to the southwestern United States (from California to Utah to Texas) and Mexico. It is a woody perennial herb growing up to about in maximum height. The leaves have blades up to l ...
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* Common name: desert tobacco, coyote tobacco * Flowers bloom spring to fall Image:Nicotiana obtusifolia.jpg Image:Nicotiana obtusifolia form.jpg Image:Nicotiana obtusifolia flower.jpg

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Penstemon parryi ''Penstemon parryi'', the Parry's penstemon, Parry's beardtongue or desert penstemon, is a wildflower native to the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona and northern Mexico. It is a perennial that blooms in March and April. In the wild, plants fl ...
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* Common name: Parry's penstemon * Flowers bloom February to April Image:Parry's Penstemon- Penstemon parryi.JPG

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Physaria purpurea ''Physaria purpurea'', the western white bladderpod or rose bladderpod, is a perennial plant in the family Brassicaceae found in the Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert ( es, Desierto de Sonora) is a desert in North America and ecoregion that cov ...
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* Common name: rose bladderpod * Flowers bloom January to May

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Proboscidea parviflora ''Proboscidea parviflora'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae known by the common names doubleclaw and red devil's-claw. It is native to the desert southwest of the United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in sand ...
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* Common name: doubleclaw

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Rafinesquia neomexicana ''Rafinesquia neomexicana'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Common names include desert chicory, plumeseed, or New Mexico plumeseed. It has white showy flowers, milky sap, and weak, zigzag stems, that may grow up throug ...
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* Common name: desert chicory, New Mexico plumeseed * Flowers bloom mid-February to May Image:Rafinesquia neomexicana 2.jpg Image:Rafinesquia neomexicana 1.jpg Image:Rafinesquia neomexicana capitulum 2005-04-01.jpg

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Salvia columbariae ''Salvia columbariae'' is an annual plant that is commonly called chia, chia sage, golden chia, or desert chia, because its seeds are used in the same way as those of ''Salvia hispanica'' ( chia). It grows in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, N ...
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* Common name: chia * Flowers bloom March–May Image:Salvia columbariae 3.jpg Image:Salvia columbariae 2.jpg Image:Salvia columbariae 1.jpg Image:Salvia columbariae 2003-04-11.jpg

'' Senna covesii''

* Common name: Coues' senna * Flowers bloom in spring and fall Image:Desertsenna.JPG Image:Senna covesii.jpg

'' 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

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Sphaeralcea ambigua ''Sphaeralcea ambigua'', is a species of flowering plant commonly known as desert globemallow or apricot mallow, is a member of the genus '' Sphaeralcea'' in the mallow family (Malvaceae). It is a perennial shrub native to parts of California, N ...
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* Common name: desert globemallow, apricot mallow * Flowers bloom in the spring Image:Sphaeralcea ambigua 4.jpg Image:Sphaeralcea ambigua 2.jpg Image:Sphaeralcea ambigua 1.jpg

'' Trixis californica''

* Common name: American threefold * Flowers after rains, most commonly in the spring Image:Trixis californica flower 2.jpg Image:Trixis californica form.jpg Image:Trixis californica flower 1.jpg

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''.

Floras - Arizona Native Plant Society

— ''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
— ''homepage: botanical illustrations.''

— ''Wildflower pictures sorted by Color''. {{Flora of the United States by political division, state=expanded 02 Sonoran Sonoran wildflowers Sonoran wildflowers *Sonoran

'' Amsinckia menziesii''

'' Anemone tuberosa''

'' Bahia absinthifolia''

'' Brickellia coulteri''

'' Carlowrightia arizonica''

'' Centaurium calycosum''

'' Cryptantha albida''

'' Cryptantha angustifolia''

'' Daucus pusillus''

''Datura innoxia ''Datura innoxia'' (often spelled ''inoxia''), known as pricklyburr, recurved thorn-apple, downy thorn-apple, Indian-apple, lovache, moonflower, nacazcul, toloatzin, toloaxihuitl, tolguache or toloache, is a species of flowering plant in the fami ...''

'' Dipterostemon capitatus''

''Encelia farinosa ''Encelia farinosa'' (commonly known as brittlebush, brittlebrush, or incienso), is a common desert shrub of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It has a variety of historical uses. Description Brittlebush grows up to tall, wi ...''

'' Eriophyllum lanosum''

'' Galium aparine''

''Geraea canescens ''Geraea canescens'', commonly known as desert sunflower, hairy desert sunflower, or desert gold, is an annual plant in the family Asteraceae. The genus name comes from the Greek ''geraios'' ("old man"), referring to the white hairs on the fruits ...''

'' Glandularia gooddingii''

'' Haplophyton crooksii''

''Isocoma tenuisecta ''Isocoma tenuisecta'', commonly called burroweed, shrine jimmyweed, or burrow goldenweed is a North American species of small, flowering perennial herbs in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Arizona, New Mexico, and Sonora. ''Isocoma tenui ...''

''Justicia californica ''Justicia californica'' is a deciduous species of flowering shrub native to the deserts of southern California, southern Arizona, and northern Mexico. Its common names include chuparosa (or chiparosa, both colloquial Spanish terms for "hummingbi ...''

'' Machaeranthera gracilis''

'' Malacothrix californica''

''Marina parryi ''Marina parryi'' is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Parry's false prairie-clover. It is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. This is a perennial herb producing s ...''

''Melampodium leucanthum ''Melampodium leucanthum'', the plains blackfoot or blackfoot daisy, is an herbaceous perennial plant in the family Asteraceae found on limestone-containing rocky slopes in the Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert ( es, Desierto de Sonora) is a de ...''

''Monoptilon bellioides ''Monoptilon bellioides'', the desert star, also called Mojave desertstar, is a desert flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Distribution It is native to stony and sandy plains in the Mojave Desert of California and the Sonoran Deserts of ...''

''Nama demissum ''Nama demissum'' is an annual flowering plant. It is known by the common name purplemat, or purple mat. Distribution Purple mat, ''Nama demissum'', grows in the American desert southwest, such as the Mojave Desert, and parts of Mexico on dry ...''

''Nicotiana obtusifolia ''Nicotiana obtusifolia'', or desert tobacco, is a plant native to the southwestern United States (from California to Utah to Texas) and Mexico. It is a woody perennial herb growing up to about in maximum height. The leaves have blades up to l ...''

''Penstemon parryi ''Penstemon parryi'', the Parry's penstemon, Parry's beardtongue or desert penstemon, is a wildflower native to the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona and northern Mexico. It is a perennial that blooms in March and April. In the wild, plants fl ...''

''Physaria purpurea ''Physaria purpurea'', the western white bladderpod or rose bladderpod, is a perennial plant in the family Brassicaceae found in the Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert ( es, Desierto de Sonora) is a desert in North America and ecoregion that cov ...''

''Proboscidea parviflora ''Proboscidea parviflora'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae known by the common names doubleclaw and red devil's-claw. It is native to the desert southwest of the United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in sand ...''

''Rafinesquia neomexicana ''Rafinesquia neomexicana'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Common names include desert chicory, plumeseed, or New Mexico plumeseed. It has white showy flowers, milky sap, and weak, zigzag stems, that may grow up throug ...''

''Salvia columbariae ''Salvia columbariae'' is an annual plant that is commonly called chia, chia sage, golden chia, or desert chia, because its seeds are used in the same way as those of ''Salvia hispanica'' ( chia). It grows in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, N ...''