Arizona Naturalist >>> Sonoran Desert Naturalist >>> Field Guide >>> Sonoran Desert Flora >>> Polemoniaceae
Mostly annual herbs. Showy flowers usu. with five lobes on a long tubular flower. Most species in the Sonoran Desert are petite and thin-stemmed.
Lesser Yellowthroat Gilia |
Gilia flavocincta |
Evening Snow |
Linanthus dichotomus |
Spring annual with tall spindly flower stalks supporting bright pink to lavender flowers. Detailed Description |
Delicate spring annual with bright white, five petaled flowers. Leaves opposite. Detailed Description |
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Desert Phlox |
Phlox tenuifolia |
Woolly Desertstar |
Eriastrum eremicum |
Spring annual that may become rather bushy as the stems grow up and through a woody shrub. Flowers white with a yellow center. Leaves opposite. Detailed Description |
Five-pointed blue flowers in clusters subtended by woolly bracts. Two petals a bit larger than the other three. Spring annual. Leaves narrowly dissected on upright plant. Detailed Description |
Miniature Woollystar |
Eriastrum diffusum |
Golden Linanthus |
Linanthus aureus |
Smaller, five-pointed pale blue to white flowers in clusters subtended by woolly bracts. Leaves mostly without hairs and with two or fewer lobes. Spring annual. Detailed Description |
Yellow funnel-flowers and slender peduncles. Spring annual. Leaves narrowly dissected on opposite, compound leaves. Detailed Description |