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coastal sand-verbena, yellow sand-verbena

Habit Plants perennial.
Stems

prostrate, often buried in sand, usually much branched, forming large mats, succulent, densely glandular-pubescent to glabrous.

Leaves

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 ovate, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, thin, yellowish green, glandular-pubescent;

flowers 17–35.

Perianth

tube yellowish green, 6.5–18 mm, limb yellow, 8–13 mm diam., lobes slightly to moderately reflexed.

Fruits

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 latifolia

Phenology Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat Sandy soils, coastal scrub, lees of dunes adjacent to strand
Elevation 0-50 m (0-200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
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.)

Source FNA vol. 4, p. 68.
Parent taxa Nyctaginaceae > Abronia
Sibling taxa
A. alpina, A. ameliae, A. ammophila, A. angustifolia, A. argillosa, A. bigelovii, A. bolackii, A. carletonii, A. elliptica, A. fragrans, A. macrocarpa, A. maritima, A. mellifera, A. nana, A. pogonantha, A. turbinata, A. umbellata, A. villosa
Name authority Eschscholtz: Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg Hist. Acad. 10: 281. (1826)
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