Kallstroemia grandiflora (Arizona-poppy) ( )

This summer bloomer has five orange petals, each with pale red veins. Numerous flowers bloom simultaneously on this ground-creeping herb with divided leaves. It germinates with the first summer rains, then sprawls out in wet pockets along roads and washes to cover whole patches with luxuriant growth. Quick to bloom once established, its desert and grassland flowering season may extend from early July through October, but most years it lasts only from late July to mid-September. Bees are active pollinating this plant not because they like pollen; they groom it off when it sticks to them. "Arizona Highways Presents Desert Wildflowers, 1988".