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
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
- Common name: Parry's false prairie-clover
- Common name: plains blackfoot, blackfoot daisy
- Flowers bloom March through December
- Common name: Mojave desert star
- Common name: purplemat
- Flowers bloom from February to May
- Common name: desert tobacco, coyote tobacco
- Flowers bloom spring to fall
- Common name: Parry's penstemon
- Flowers bloom February to April
- Common name: rose bladderpod
- Flowers bloom January to May
- Common name: desert chicory, New Mexico plumeseed
- Flowers bloom mid-February to May
- Common name: chia
- Flowers bloom March–May
- Common name: Coues' senna
- Flowers bloom in spring and fall
- Common name: Wislizenus' senna, shrubby senna
- Flowers bloom in the mid to late summer
- Common name: sleepy catchfly, sleepy silene
- Flowers bloom March to August
- Common name: desert globemallow, apricot mallow
- Flowers bloom in the spring
- Common name: American threefold
- Flowers after rains, most commonly in the spring
See also
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