# 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

## 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

## 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 innoxia

* Common name: pricklyburr

## Dipterostemon capitatus

* 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

## Zeltnera calycosa

* Common name: Arizona centaury
* Flowers bloom April to June