List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers

Amsinckia menziesii

Common name: common fiddleneck

Flowers bloom March through May

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

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

Daucus pusillus

Common name: American wild carrot

Flowers bloom March to May

Datura inoxia

Common name: pricklyburr

Dichelostemma capitatum

Common name: bluedicks

Flowers bloom February to May

Encelia farinosa

Common name: brittlebush

Flowers bloom in the spring

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

Geraea canescens

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

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

Justicia californica

Common name: beloperone, chuparosa

Flowers bloom in the spring

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

Monoptilon bellioides

Common name: Mojave desert star

Nama demissum

Common name: purplemat

Flowers bloom from February to May

Nicotiana obtusifolia

Common name: desert tobacco, coyote tobacco

Flowers bloom spring to fall

Penstemon parryi

Common name: Parry's penstemon

Flowers bloom February to April

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

Salvia columbariae

Common name: chia

Flowers bloom March–May

Senna covesii

Common name: Coues' senna

Flowers bloom in spring and fall

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

Trixis californica

Common name: American threefold

Flowers after rains, most commonly in the spring