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."

• Common name: common fiddleneck
• Flowers bloom March through May

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• Common name: desert anemone
• Flowers bloom February to April

• Common name: hairyseed bahia, silverleaf bahia
• Flowers bloom spring through fall

• Common name: Coulter's brickellbush
• Flowers bloom March to November

• Common name: Arizona wrightwort
• Flowers bloom in the spring

• Common name: New Mexico catseye, New Mexico cryptantha
• Flowers bloom in early spring

• Common name: Panamint catseye, bristlelobe cryptantha
• Flowers bloom in early spring

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• Common name: American wild carrot
• Flowers bloom March to May

• Common name: pricklyburr

• Common name: bluedicks
• Flowers bloom February to May

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• Common name: brittlebush
• Flowers bloom in the spring

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• Common name: white woolly daisy
• Flowers bloom February through May

• Common name: common bedstraw, cleavers, stickywilly
• Flowers bloom in the spring

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• Common name: desert sunflower, hairy desert sunflower, desert gold

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• Common name: Gooding's verbena, southwestern mock vervain
• Flowers bloom winter, spring, and fall

• Common name: cockroachplant
• Flowers bloom March to April and July to November

• Common name: burroweed, shrine jimmyweed, burrow goldenweed
• Flowers bloom in September through November

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• Common name: beloperone, chuparosa
• Flowers bloom in the spring

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• Common name: slender goldenweed, yellow spiny daisy
• Flowers bloom February to December

• Common name: California desertdandelion

• Common name: Parry's false prairie-clover

• Common name: plains blackfoot, blackfoot daisy
• Flowers bloom March through December

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• Common name: Mojave desert star

• Common name: purplemat
• Flowers bloom from February to May

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• Common name: desert tobacco, coyote tobacco
• Flowers bloom spring to fall

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• Common name: Parry's penstemon
• Flowers bloom February to April

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• Common name: rose bladderpod
• Flowers bloom January to May

• Common name: doubleclaw

• Common name: desert chicory, New Mexico plumeseed
• Flowers bloom mid-February to May

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• Common name: chia
• Flowers bloom March–May

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• Common name: Coues' senna
• Flowers bloom in spring and fall

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• 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

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• Common name: American threefold
• Flowers after rains, most commonly in the spring

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

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• List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name
• Index: Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
• List of southern LCRV flora by region — Lower Colorado River Valley.

• Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: Flora of the Sonoran Desert Region
• U.S. Wildflowers Reference List: Arizona — Reference List of websites for Arizona Wildflower Identification.
• Pima Community College. Common Wildflowers of Tucson.
• Floras - Arizona Native Plant Society
• USDA Plants Database — plant profiles search engine, by common or botanical names, or by U.S. state.

• Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: Desert Wildflower Blooms — homepage, with focus article links.
• Arizona—Sonora Desert Museum: The Desert in Bloom
• Sonoran Desert Florilegium Program — homepage: botanical illustrations.
• Desert USA: Desert Wildflower Field Guide — Wildflower pictures sorted by Color.