Sand verbena is a sticky, trailing plant with clusters of small, fragrant, pinkish lavender flowers. The tiny desert gold poppy is a miniature edition of the California poppy. A still smaller one, with petals sometimes only one-eighth of an inch long, is a delight to the finder. Curlybloom, or desert heliotrope, grows blue, violet, purple, lavender, and white. Desert ghost is a tall white daisy, borne by gray stems that show faintly against the gravel, and the charming desert star is a low-growing white daisy.
Whispering bells is a yellow flower that clings to the stem when dry and rustles in the wind.
Perennial herbaceous plants are widely scattered. Wetleaf has leaves that are always stickily damp to the touch. Honeysweet, a white, woolly bush with tiny yellow flowers, blooms in the autumn. The bear poppy has beautiful pure white flowers, one to three inches across. Cottonwoods and willows are found near springs and in well-watered canyons.