Abronia umbellata (pink sand verbena) is a flowering annual plant which is native to western North America.

Pink sand verbena tolerates seaside conditions and is found on the west coast of North America from British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico.

The limbs of the perianth is bright colored sometimes to purplish magenta and the tube can be green or red but always-glandular pubescent.

[6] Originally described in 1793 by the French botanist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck,[7] Abronia umbellata was collected in 1786 from Monterey, California by the gardener Jean Nicolas Collignon of the French La Pérouse expedition, which had stopped at the capital of Alta California as part of a journey of scientific exploration spanning the Pacific Ocean.

While Collignon and his shipmates perished in a wreck near Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands, some of his collection had previously been shipped back to France during a stop at the Portuguese-held Macao, including the seeds of A. umbellata.