The wildflowers of the Sonoran Desert typically appear after a rain, some after the winter rains, and some after the summer "monsoons."
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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
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* 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
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Brickellia coulteri
''Brickellia coulteri'', or Coulter's brickellbush, is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Mexico ( Baja California Sur, Baja California, Sonora, Oaxaca) and the southwestern United States (A ...
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* 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
''Daucus pusillus'' is a species of wild carrot known by the common names American wild carrot and rattle-snake-weed. Its Latin name means "little carrot", or "tiny carrot". It is similar in appearance to other species and subspecies of wild carr ...
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* 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
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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, ...
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* Common name: brittlebush
* Flowers bloom in the spring
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'' Eriophyllum lanosum''
*Common name: white woolly daisy
* Flowers bloom February through May
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Galium aparine
''Galium aparine'', with common names including cleavers, clivers, catchweed and sticky willy among others, is an annual, herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae.
Names
''Galium aparine'' is known by a variety of common names in English. They ...
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* Common name: common bedstraw, cleavers, stickywilly
* Flowers bloom in the spring
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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
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'' Glandularia gooddingii''
* Common name: Gooding's verbena
southwestern mock vervain* Flowers bloom winter, spring, and fall
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Haplophyton crooksii
''Haplophyton crooksii'' is a plant species native to Arizona, New Mexico
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* 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
''Xanthisma gracile'' is a species of annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names slender goldenweed and annual bristleweed.Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 218
Range and habitat
It is native ...
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* 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
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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 d ...
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* 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
''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
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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
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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 san ...
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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
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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 seed, chia). It grows in California, Nevada, Utah, ...
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* Common name: chia
* Flowers bloom March–May
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Senna covesii
''Senna covesii'' (desert senna, Coues' senna, rattleweed, rattlebox, dais, or cove senna) is a Perennial plant, perennial subshrub in the family Fabaceae, native to the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert in southeastern California, southern Nevad ...
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* 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
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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
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Trixis californica
''Trixis californica '', the American threefold or American trixis, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southwestern United States in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and in Mexico in the stat ...
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* Common name: American threefold
* Flowers after rains, most commonly in the spring
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See also
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List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name
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Index: Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
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List of southern LCRV flora by region
The Lower Colorado River Valley (LCRV) is the river region of the lower Colorado River of the southwestern United States in North America that rises in the Rocky Mountains and has its outlet at the Colorado River Delta in the northern Gulf of C ...
— ''Lower Colorado River Valley''.
References
Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: Flora of the Sonoran Desert RegionU.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''.
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