Abronia villosa (desert sand verbena) ( )

Frequently growing with dune evening primrose is desert sand verbena, an annual plant with beautiful pink to magenta-colored flowers. The many trailing stems of sand verbena grow outward for as much as 2 feet, with thick rounded leaves covered by sticky hairs along their length. This is an easy plant to recognize and perhaps the most photographed of all desert annuals. It is widely distributed in low sandy valleys and edges o dunes in lower elevations of both the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. "Califoria Desert Plants, Philip W Rundel, Robert J Gustafson, Michael E Kauffmann."
Sand-verbena has stalked heads of pink-purple to rose-colored "flowers" or colored bracts. Sand often sticks to its thick leaves in the dunes and desert washes where it grows. It may bloom any time from the first of February to early October. There is usually one peak in flowering around mi-February, and if soil moisture persists, another peak may occur any time between May and late August. "Arizona Highways Presents Desert Wildflowers, 1988".