Abronia mellifera |
Abronia angustifolia |
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honey scented sand-verbena, white sand-verbena |
purple sand verbena |
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Habit | Plants perennial. | Plants annual (perennial). |
Stems | decumbent to ascending, much branched, elongate, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. |
decumbent to ascending, much branched, elongate, often reddish, glandular-pubescent, viscid. |
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 1–7 cm; blade ovate-oblong to elliptic, 1–5.5 × 0.7–3 cm, margins entire to sinuate, often ± undulate, infrequently shallowly lobed, surfaces viscid-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 longer than subtending petiole; bracts lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 5–10 × 1–3 mm, papery, glandular-pubescent; flowers 10–30. |
Perianth | tube pale rose proximally to greenish distally, 15–25 mm, limb white, 7–12 mm diam. |
tube pink, 10–20 mm, limb bright magenta to pale pink, infrequently pale rose, 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. |
broadly obdeltate in profile, 5–10 × 4–8 mm, scarious, apex narrowly tapered to a prominent beak; wings 5, extending to or slightly beyond base of beak, truncate, with conspicuous dilations, cavities extending throughout. |
Abronia mellifera |
Abronia angustifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | Flowering spring–fall. |
Habitat | Sandy soils, cold desert scrub, grasslands | Sandy soils, desert scrub |
Elevation | 100-2000 m (300-6600 ft) | 300-1300 m (1000-4300 ft) |
Distribution |
ID; OR; UT; WA; WY
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AZ; NM; TX; n Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila)
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Discussion | Plants on gypsum flats and knolls of White Sands, New Mexico, are perennial, but may flower in their first season. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 65. | FNA vol. 4, p. 65. |
Parent taxa | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia |
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Synonyms | A. angustifolia var. arizonica, A. torreyi | |
Name authority | Douglas ex Hooker: Bot. Mag. 56: plate 2879. (1829) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 344. (1898) |
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