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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 Image:Amsinckia intermedia 2003-03-04.jpg '' Anemone tuberosa'' * Common namedesert anemone* Flowers bloom February to April '' Bahia absinthifolia'' * Common namehairyseed bahia silverleaf bahia * Flowers bloom spring through fall ''Brickellia coulteri'' * Common nameCoulter's brickellbush* Flowers bloom March to November '' Carlowrightia arizonica'' * Common nameArizona 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 catseyeNew Mexico cryptantha* Flowers bloom in early spring '' Cryptantha angustifolia'' * Common name: Panamint catseye, bristlelobe cryptantha * Flowers blo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amsinckia Menziesii
''Amsinckia menziesii'' is a species of plant in the family Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family. Varieties The plant has two varieties: :''Amsinckia menziesii'' var. ''intermedia'' - common fiddleneck, intermediate fiddleneck :''Amsinckia menziesii'' var. ''menziesii'' - Menzies' fiddleneck Var. ''intermedia'' ''Amsinckia menziesii'' var. ''intermedia'' (common fiddleneck, or intermediate fiddleneck) is one of the common fiddlenecks of western North America, distributed from Alaska and Canada through the Western United States to Mexico. Like other members of the genus, it has a terminal flowering whorl somewhat shaped like the head of a violin or fiddle, hence the name fiddleneck. The flowers are yellow-orange, orange, or dark yellow. In Australia, the species has become a common weed of cultivated areas in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. In the British Isles, it is an introduced species naturalised particularly in the east of the country and recorded i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 tenuisecta'' grows 1 to 3 feet (30–90 cm) tall. Leaves are narrowly lance-shaped, with numerous large teeth or small lobes along the edges. The leaves are gland In animals, a gland is a group of cells in an animal's body that synthesizes substances (such as hormones) for release into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland). Structure De ...ular and lobed. The plant flowers in September through November, with clusters of heads at the ends of branches and on top of the main stem. Each head contains 8-15 yellow disc flowers but no ray flowers. The old heads turn dry and tan and remain on the plant after the achenes have dispersed. Burroweed is poisonous to mammals, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, New Mexico, Sonora, and Baja California, and was an important food for Native Americans. Some native names include ''pashiiy'' from Tongva and ''it'epeš'' from Ventureño. Description ''Salvia columbariae'' grows tall. Its stem hairs are generally short and sparse in distribution. It has oblong-ovate basal leaves that are long. The leaves are pinnately dissected and the lobes are irregularly rounded. The inflorescence is more or less scapose, meaning it has a long peduncle that comes from the ground level that has bracts. The bracts are round and awn-tipped. There are usually 1–2 cluster of flowers within the inflorescence. The calyx is long and the upper lip is unlobed but has 2 (sometimes 3) awns. The lower lip is about twice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 through other shrubs for support. It is an annual plant (completes its life cycle in a single season) found in dry climate areas of the southwestern deserts of the US and northwestern deserts of Mexico.Pam Mackay, Mojave Desert Wildflowers, 2nd Edition, p135 Description The annual plants are gray-green with sparse foliage and are between high. Basal leaves are long and pinnate with narrow lobes while leaves further up the stem are smaller. White flowerheads appear at the end of the stems between May and June in the species native range. Flower heads occur singly at the tip of branches. The flower heads are composed of strap-shaped ray flowers, growing longer toward the outer portion of the head, and collectively creating the appearance of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 sandy, dry, and disturbed habitat and blooms during the hot summer. This is an annual herb growing from a taproot and producing sprawling, spreading stems. The leaves have rounded, oval, or roughly triangular blades up to long which have smooth edges or faint lobes or teeth. The inflorescence is an array of several showy bell-shaped flowers with five lobes flaring several centimeters wide. The flower is white to pink or purple, sometimes with mottling or lines of spots in the throat, and often a purple blotch on the upper lip. A yellow nectar guide extends along the lower lip. The fruit is a large seed pod many centimeters long, a cylindrical body tapering into a very long, thin, curving tail. As the fruit dries the tail cracks open and splits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona ....Sonoran Desert Wildflowers, Richard Spellenberg, 2nd ed., 2012, References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15547782 purpurea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 flower in their second year. In cultivation, flowering is often achieved in the first year if seed is planted in the autumn. At the base of the plant are lanceolate The following is a list of terms which are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants. Leaves may be simple (a single leaf blade or lamina) or compound (with several leaflets). The edge of the leaf may be regular o ... bluish green leaves that grow in a rosette pattern. From the base emerge the flower stalks, which are 2 to 5 feet high and topped with numerous deep-throated flowers, usually pink but selected horticulturally for red color. Parry's penstemon is a desert plant. It thrives in full sun to part shade. A native lowland desert sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 long, the lower ones borne on short petioles, the upper ones smaller and clasping the stem. The funnel-shaped flower is white or green-tinged, its tubular throat up to long. References External linksCalflora Database: ''Nicotiana obtusifolia'' (desert tobacco)Jepson eFlora treatment of ''Nicotiana obtusifolia'' obtusifolia [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 sandy or gravelly flats from 2000' to 5500' in creosote bush scrub Creosote bush scrub is a North American desert vegetation type (or biome) of sparsely but evenly spaced desert plants dominated by creosote bush (''Larrea tridentata'') and its associates. Its visual characterization is of widely spaced shrubs that .... Description ''Nama demissum'' grows to three inches high in a small patch of hairy glandular herbage. The flowers range from pinkish to purple. It blooms from February to May.Purple Mat. Pima Community College. http://wc.pima.edu/~bfiero/tucsonecology/plants/wflow_puma.htm Varieties *''Nama demissum'' var. ''covillei'' Brand—Coville's purplemat *''Nama demissum'' var. ''demissum'' Gray—purple mat, purplemat Imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the Southwestern United States northwestern Mexico. It is and is very common in the northern, eastern, and southern parts of the desert. Description ''Monoptilon bellioides'' is a short annual plant; in seasons with very little rainfall, the plant may only grow to 1–2 cm, if it grows at all, while in seasons of heavy rainfall, it can grow up to 25 cm tall. The leaves are linear, 5–10 mm long, with a blunt apex. The flowers are produced in dense inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...s (capitula), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Ariz ....Sonoran Desert Wildflowers, Richard Spellenberg, 2nd ed., 2012, It is an attractive ornamental with showy flowers and long bloom period, from March to November. References Millerieae Flora of the Sonoran Deserts {{Millerieae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Parryi
''Marina parryi'' is a species of flowering plant in the Fabaceae, 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 stiff, branching stems 20 to 80 centimeters long. It is coated with glands and rough hairs. The leaves are made up of several pairs of small oval leaflets no more than 6 millimeters long. The inflorescence is a raceme of deep blue and white bicolored flowers each under a centimeter long. The fruit is a legume pod containing a single seed. External links Calflora Database: ''Marina parryi'' (Parry dalea, Parry's false prairie clover, Parry's marina) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
