title: List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers
text: # 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
  