Abronia mellifera |
Abronia alpina |
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honey scented sand-verbena, white sand-verbena |
Ramshaw Meadows abronia, Ramshaw Meadows sand verbena |
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| Habit | Plants perennial. | Plants perennial. |
| Stems | decumbent to ascending, much branched, elongate, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. |
prostrate, well branched, forming small mats, elongate, viscid-pubescent. |
| Leaves | petiole 1–6 cm; blade ovate to lance-elliptic, 1–6 × 0.5–4 cm, margins entire to sinuate and ± undulate, surfaces glabrous or glandular-pubescent. |
petiole 1–2 cm; blade orbiculate-oval, 0.4–1 × 0.3–0.5 cm, margins entire, plane, surfaces glandular-pubescent. |
| Inflorescences | peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts lanceolate to obovate, 5–12 × 1–5 mm, papery, glabrate to glandular-pubescent; flowers 25–60. |
peduncle shorter than subtending petiole; bracts lanceolate to ovate, 2–3 × 1–2 mm, papery, glandular-pubescent; flowers 1–5. |
| Perianth | tube pale rose proximally to greenish distally, 15–25 mm, limb white, 7–12 mm diam. |
tube whitish, 10–18 mm, limb white to lavender-pink, 6–8 mm diam. |
| Fruits | winged, broadly obdeltate or cordate in profile, 6–10 × 4–10 mm, thin, usually coriaceous, rarely indurate, base attenuate, apex prominently beaked; wings (2–)5 (when 2, folded to form single deep groove), without dilations, broad, thin, without cavities. |
narrowly obovate in profile, 3–4 × 2–3 mm, thin, coriaceous, apex broadly conic; wings absent or 5-angled. |
Abronia mellifera |
Abronia alpina |
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| Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | Flowering summer. |
| Habitat | Sandy soils, cold desert scrub, grasslands | Sandy soils, alpine meadows |
| Elevation | 100-2000 m [300-6600 ft] | 2600-3000 m [8500-9800 ft] |
| Distribution |
ID; OR; UT; WA; WY
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CA |
| Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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| Name authority | Douglas ex Hooker: Bot. Mag. 56: plate 2879. (1829) | Brandegee: Bot. Gaz. 27: 456. (1899) |
| Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 65. | FNA vol. 4, p. 69. |
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