Apr 29, 2026
Painted Desert Community Complex Historic Districti
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Flowers Guide
Flowers Guide for Arizona
Desert wildlife, canyons, mountains, and cactus
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Arizona. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
237
Species
88
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Flowers across Arizona
This guide focuses on flowers within Arizona's wider region guide, with bloom-rich sightings and the places where wildflowers help define the landscape through the seasons.
Latest Sightings
Recent flower sightings in Arizona
A recent look at flower sightings across Arizona.
Apr 24, 2026
Grandview Minei
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May 18, 2025
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Sightings Map
See where flower sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Arizona.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 flowers to look for in Arizona
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
saguaro
42 snaps
Gambel Oak
16 snaps
Wholeleaf Paintbrush
9 snaps
stinknet
9 snaps
Stansbury's Cliffrose
7 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in Arizona
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park41 sightings12 species
Arizona, US
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
You might spot Saguaro.
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Park35 sightings50 species
Arizona, US
Boyce Thompson Arboretum
You might spot Northern Cardinal, Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus, and Queen.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Arizona, US
Walnut Canyon National Monument
You might spot Fernbush, Mat Rock Spiraea, and Baker Kingcup Cactus.
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Park32 sightings50 species
Arizona, US
Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Facilities
You might spot Christmas Cholla and California Barrel Cactus.
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Park35 sightings50 species
Arizona, US
Chiricahua National Monument Historic Designed Landscape
You might spot Yarrow's Spiny Lizard and Mexican Jay.
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Zoo30 sightings14 species
Arizona, US
Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park
You might spot Golden Eagle, Black Bear, and Cougar.
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Full Guide
Full Arizona flowers list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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saguaro
Gambel Oak
Wholeleaf Paintbrush
stinknet
Stansbury's Cliffrose
Teddybear Cholla
ocotillo
Banana Yucca
Creosote Bush
Plains Pricklypear
Sacred Datura
Apache plume
Chain-Fruit Cholla
Graham's nipple cactus
prickly lettuce
Christmas cholla
Flaxflowered Ipomopsis
Redstem Stork's-bill
Yellow Sweetclover
field bindweed
western blue flag
Balkan toadflax
Blue Dicks
Brittlebush
Cheatgrass
Colorado Four o'Clock
Desert Prince's Plume
Fishhook Barrel Cactus
Goatsbeard
Pointleaf Manzanita
Scarlet Gilia
Small-leaf Globemallow
Trailing Windmills
White Horehound
Woods' rose
Yarrow
great mullein
narrowleaf puccoon
pinewoods geranium
yellow trumpet flower
Alligator Juniper
Antelopehorn Milkweed
Arizona Cypress
Arizona Poppy
Big Sagebrush
Brittle Pricklypear
Buckhorn Cholla
California Barrel Cactus
California poppy
Crimson Monkeyflower
Desert Broom
Desert Penstemon
Douglas Fir
Fee's lip fern
Gaillardia
Kingcup Cactus
Littleleaf Rhatany
Netleaf Oak
Oregon Boxwood
Palmleaf Mistflower
Parry'S False Prairie-Clover
Pinkflower Hedgehog Cactus
Purple Owl'S-Clover
Rocky Mountain Juniper
Russian olive
Santa Rita Hedgehog Cactus
Silver Wormwood
Southwestern Ponderosa Pine
Stream Orchid
Tall Evening Primrose
Tomato
Utah Juniper
Utah Serviceberry
Whitemargin Sandmat
Woolly Locoweed
Yerba Mansa
apricot mallow
bastard toadflax
blue columbine
buttonbush
cheeseweed mallow
desert willow
evergreen sumac
greenspot nightshade
mat rock spiraea
silverleaf nightshade
upright prairie coneflower
wax currant
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