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."