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

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 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