Abronia fragrans |
Abronia latifolia |
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fragrant verbena, fragrant white sand-verbena, heart's-delight, snowball sand-verbena |
coastal sand-verbena, yellow sand-verbena |
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Habit | Plants perennial. | Plants perennial. |
Stems | procumbent to semierect, slightly to moderately branched, elongate, sometimes reddish at base and nodes, glandular-pubescent, viscid. |
prostrate, often buried in sand, usually much branched, forming large mats, succulent, densely glandular-pubescent to glabrous. |
Leaves | petiole 0.5–8 cm; blade ovate to triangular or lanceolate, 3–12 × 1–8 cm, margins entire to subsinuate and slightly undulate, adaxial surface glandular-pubescent, abaxial surface more densely and longer pubescent, or sometimes villous. |
1–6 cm; blade deltate-ovate to reniform, 2.2–4.8 × 2.7–5.2 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes slightly repand and undulate, surfaces glabrous or viscid-puberulent. |
Inflorescences | peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts linear-lanceolate to oval-ovate, 7–25 × 2–12 mm, scarious, glandular-puberulent to short villous; flowers 30–80. |
peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts ovate, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, thin, yellowish green, glandular-pubescent; flowers 17–35. |
Perianth | tube greenish to reddish purple, 10–25 mm, limb white, (2–)6–10 mm diam. |
tube yellowish green, 6.5–18 mm, limb yellow, 8–13 mm diam., lobes slightly to moderately reflexed. |
Fruits | winged or not, fusiform and appearing deeply grooved when wingless, when wings not distorted, fruit ± cordate in profile, tapered at base, with prominent beak in broad notch at apex, 5–12 × 2.5–7 mm, indurate, rugose veined or, if wings distorted, fruit ± rhombic in profile and tapered at both ends, or obdeltate and truncate at apex, with prominent beak; wings 4–5, thick, narrow, not dilated at apex, cavities extending throughout; peripheral fruits often distorted, S-shaped in lateral view. |
winged, ± rhombic in profile, attenuate at both ends, 8–15 × 6–14 mm, scarious; wings 4–5, thin walled, small, cavities extending into wing. |
Abronia fragrans |
Abronia latifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Dry sandy soils, scrub and grasslands | Sandy soils, coastal scrub, lees of dunes adjacent to strand |
Elevation | 400-2000 m (1300-6600 ft) | 0-50 m (0-200 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; KS; MT; ND; NE; NM; OK; SD; TX; UT; WY; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | S. S. Tillett (1967) considered plants of Abronia umbellata var. minor (Standley) Munz to be introgressants between A. latifolia and A. umbellata. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 63. | FNA vol. 4, p. 68. |
Parent taxa | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia |
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Name authority | Nuttall ex Hooker: Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 261. (1853) | Eschscholtz: Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg Hist. Acad. 10: 281. (1826) |
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