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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
Malus sylvestris - Common Apple (Arkansas State Flower is the Apple Blossom) Acer negundo - Box Elder; Acer species - Maples; Cornus florida - Flowering Dogwood; Juniperus virginiana - Eastern Redcedar; Rhus glabra - Smooth Sumac; Other Rhus species also common; Diospyros virginiana - American Persimmon; Prunus serotina - Black Cherry; Prunus ...
Flora of the Sonoran Desert includes six subdivisions based on vegetation types. [ 1 ] : 2–3 Two are north of the boundary between the United States and Mexico , and four are south of the boundary.
It is within the Colorado Desert subregion, of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion The Little Picacho Wilderness is located in the southern portion of the Lower Colorado River Valley , with its eastern side along the Colorado River (Little Picacho Wash runs ~ 1.5 miles (2 km) downstream); and is 10 miles (16 km) north of Yuma , Arizona and Winterhaven ...
Flora of the Sonoran Deserts—of southwestern North America, in regions of southern Arizona, southeastern California, and northwestern Mexico. Including the Sonoran Desert and its subregions of the: Colorado Desert , Lechuguilla Desert , Gran Desierto de Altar , Tule Desert , Yuha Desert , and Yuma Desert .
The Sonoran desert wraps around the northern end of the Gulf of California, from Baja California Sur (El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve in central and Pacific west coast, Central Gulf Coast subregion on east to southern tip), north through much of Baja California, excluding the central northwest mountains and Pacific west coast, through southeastern California and southwestern and southern ...
A drought-resistant annual plant, it can be found in the California, [4] Mojave, and Sonoran Deserts. It grows below sea level, from −40 to 1,130 m (−130 to 3,700 ft), in sandy desert soils along with creosote bush (Larrea tridentata). [5] It is one of the flowers which participates in the occasional superblooms of desert flowers.