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The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico. The western portion of the Mexico–United States border passes through the Sonoran ...
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
Ambrosia salsola, [3] commonly called cheesebush, winged ragweed, burrobush, [4] white burrobrush, [citation needed] and desert pearl, [citation needed] is a species of perennial shrub in the family Asteraceae native to deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
Rafinesquia neomexicana is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.Common names include desert chicory, [2] plumeseed, or New Mexico plumeseed. [1] [3] It has white showy flowers, milky sap, and weak, zigzag stems, that may grow up through other shrubs for support. [2]
[3]: 126 [6]: 50 "With its dramatic beauty", [4]: 234 sky pilot is "thought to be one of the finest and most beautiful Sierra wildflowers". [ 3 ] : 126 Showy polemonium ( Polemonium pulcherrimum ) grows in most Sierra Nevada habitats, and has tightly pinnate leaves with leaflets reminiscent in appearance to the armored tail of a stagasaurus ...
Mature individuals of Castilleja integra are typically 9–50 centimeters (3.5–20 in) in size, though they have been reported to grow as tall as 100 centimeters (39 in). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] All above ground parts of the plants, the leaves, bracts, stems, and flowers, are covered in light coating of soft down, called tomentum by botanists.
Flora of the Arizona Upland includes higher elevation Sonora Desert plants that require more moisture and cooler climates than those of the adjacent Sonoran Desert areas in the Colorado Desert of the lower Colorado River valley area, and which can withstand frost, unlike plants of the Sonoran Desert south of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Like other members of its genus, Malacothrix glabrata has a milky sap and daisy-like flower heads.The plants grow to 15 to 40 cm (5 to 15 in) tall. The leaves are 6.5–12.5 cm (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 –5 in) long, with stringy lobes. [1]