Constantinos Petrinos / Bougainvillea flowers growing on the wall of a house, Spetses Island, Aegean Sea, Greece. April 2013.

Edwin Giesbers / Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea var isabel greensmith) Botanical garden, Leiden, Netherlands

Jack Dykinga / Desert landscape with flowering Sand verbena (Abronia), Desert gold (Geraea canescens), and Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides) Anza-Borrego State Park, California, USA. March 2017. These...

Floris van Breugel / Sand verbena (Abronia villosa) and Brown-eyed evening primrose (Camissonia claviformis) blooming in sand dunes, during super bloom caused by El Nino weather Death Valley, California, USA. March 2016.

Floris van Breugel / Sand verbena (Abronia villosa) blooming at the base of sand dunes, during super bloom caused by El Nino weather Death Valley, California, USA. February 2016

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Flowers (Commicarpus bossieri) Oman, September

MYN / JP Lawrence / Red sand verbena (Abronia maritima) flower, San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge, USA, February. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Pascal Pittorino / Bougainvillea(Bougainvillea glabra) with colourful leaf bracts, in botanic garden, Var, France, Provence, July.

Floris van Breugel / Sand verbana (Abronia villosa), Ibex Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, USA. April 2010.

Daniel Nunez / Alligator lizard (Abronia meledona) portrait, Guatemala. Endangered.

Daniel Nunez / Alligator lizard (Abronia meledona) resting on moss covered log in rainforest, Guatemala. Endangered.

Daniel Nunez / Alligator lizard (Abronia meledona) resting on moss covered log in rainforest, Guatemala. Endangered.