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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
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 ...
[1]: 2–3 Two are north of the boundary between the United States and Mexico, and four are south of the boundary. [1]: 2–3 The flora of the Colorado Desert are influenced by the environment of the very dry and hot lower areas of the Colorado River valley, which may be barren, treeless, and generally have no large cacti.
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 .
Fouquieria splendens (commonly known as ocotillo / ɒ k ə ˈ t iː j oʊ / (Latin American Spanish:), but also referred to as buggywhip, coachwhip, candlewood, slimwood, desert coral, Jacob's staff, Jacob cactus, and vine cactus) is a plant indigenous to the Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Chihuahuan Desert and Colorado Desert in the Southwestern United States (southern California, southern ...
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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.
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.