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Sonoran Desert Phlox

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

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Spring annual with tall spindly flower stalks supporting bright pink to lavender flowers.   Detailed Description

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Delicate spring annual with bright white, five petaled flowers. Leaves opposite.   Detailed Description

Desert Phlox

Phlox tenuifolia

Woolly Desertstar

Eriastrum eremicum

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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

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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

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Miniature Woollystar

Eriastrum diffusum

Golden Linanthus

Linanthus aureus

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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

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Yellow funnel-flowers and slender peduncles. Spring annual. Leaves narrowly dissected on opposite, compound leaves.    Detailed Description


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