Saguaro Bloom Season 2026: Where to See Arizona's State Wildflower Around Tucson This May

If you have driven Speedway out toward Saguaro East this week, or wandered the Bajada Loop on the west side at sunrise, you have already seen what is happening: the saguaros are starting to flower. The saguaro blossom has been Arizona's state wildflower since 1931, each individual flower lives about 24 hours, and the saguaro itself does not produce a single bloom until it is roughly 35 years old. Here is a sourced May 2026 walk-through of where the bloom is happening within an hour of Tucson, how the flowering actually works, the pollinators you'll see at dawn and dusk, and what comes after the petals fall.