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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
165
Species
67
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.
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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.
Gambel Oak
16 snaps
Wholeleaf Paintbrush
9 snaps
saguaro
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.
Park30 sightings12 species
Arizona, US
Walnut Canyon National Monument
You might spot Fernbush, Mat Rock Spiraea, and Baker Kingcup Cactus.
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Zoo30 sightings12 species
Arizona, US
Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park
You might spot Megetra Vittata, Juniper Titmouse, and Gopher Snake.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Arizona, US
The Arboretum at Flagstaff
You might spot Southwestern Ponderosa Pine and Plateau Fence Lizard.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Arizona, US
Grandview Mine
You might spot Common Raven, Gambel Oak, and Vulture.
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Park29 sightings12 species
Arizona, US
Railroad Addition Historic District
You might spot Dark-Eyed Junco and Plateau Fence Lizard.
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Park26 sightings12 species
Arizona, US
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
You might spot Saguaro.
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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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Gambel Oak
Wholeleaf Paintbrush
saguaro
stinknet
Stansbury's Cliffrose
Banana Yucca
Plains Pricklypear
Sacred Datura
ocotillo
Apache plume
Christmas cholla
Flaxflowered Ipomopsis
Graham's nipple cactus
Redstem Stork's-bill
Yellow Sweetclover
field bindweed
prickly lettuce
western blue flag
Balkan toadflax
Blue Dicks
Brittlebush
Cheatgrass
Colorado Four o'Clock
Creosote Bush
Desert Prince's Plume
Fishhook Barrel Cactus
Goatsbeard
Scarlet Gilia
Small-leaf Globemallow
Teddybear Cholla
White Horehound
Woods' rose
Yarrow
great mullein
narrowleaf puccoon
pinewoods geranium
yellow trumpet flower
Antelopehorn Milkweed
Big Sagebrush
Brittle Pricklypear
Desert Broom
Douglas Fir
Fee's lip fern
Gaillardia
Kingcup Cactus
Oregon Boxwood
Palmleaf Mistflower
Rocky Mountain Juniper
Russian olive
Southwestern Ponderosa Pine
Tomato
Utah Juniper
Utah Serviceberry
Whitemargin Sandmat
Woolly Locoweed
Yerba Mansa
apricot mallow
bastard toadflax
blue columbine
buttonbush
cheeseweed mallow
desert willow
evergreen sumac
mat rock spiraea
silverleaf nightshade
upright prairie coneflower
wax currant
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