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Desert Wildflower Field Guide

This guide is designed to help you identify desert wildflowers by color, scientific name, region and common name. To download the pictures to your computer, click here. The pictures are sized to work on the IPod and similar devices. With the IPod you will easily be able to identify wildflowers in the desert.

White Wildflowers

Common Name
Brown-Eyed Evening Primrose

Scientific Name
Camissonia claviformis

Region Deserts
Mojave
Sonoran
Great Basin

Common Name
Sacred Datura

 Scientific Name
Datura meteloides

Region Deserts
Mojave
Sonoran
Chihuahuan

Common Name
Sand Blazing Star

Scientific Name
Mentzelia involucrata

Region Deserts
Sonoran Desert

Common Name
Desert Chicory

Scientific Name
Rafinesquia
neomexicana

Region Deserts
Mojave
Sonoran
Chihuahuan 

Common Name
Desert Lily

Scientific Name
Hesperocallis
undulata

Region Deserts
Sonoran

Common Name
Desert Star

Scientific Name
Monoptilon bellioides

Region Deserts
Mojave
Sonoran

Common Name
Dune Evening Primrose

Scientific Name
Oenothera deltoides

Region Deserts
Great Basin
Mojave
Sonoran

Common Name
Ghost Flower

Scientific Name
Mohavea confertiflora

Region Deserts
Mojave
Sonoran

Common Name
Desert Pincushion

Scientific Name
Chaenactis stevioides

Region Deserts
Great Basin
Mojave
Sonoran
Chihuahuan

Common Name
Narrow-Leaved Popcorn Flower

Scientific Name
Cryptantha angustifolia


Region Deserts
Mojave
Sonoran

Common Name
Prickly Poppy
Thistleoppy

Scientific Name
Argemone pleicantha

Region Deserts
Great Basin
Sonoran
Chihuahuan

Common Name
Rock Daisy

Scientific Name
Perityle emori

Region Deserts
Mojave

Common Name
 White Wooly Daisy

Scientific Name
Eriophyllum lanosum

Region Deserts
Mojave