List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers facts for kids

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

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