Abronia mellifera |
Abronia macrocarpa |
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honey scented sand-verbena, white sand-verbena |
large-fruit sand-verbena |
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| Habit | Plants perennial. | Plants perennial. |
| Stems | decumbent to ascending, much branched, elongate, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. |
ascending to semierect, slightly to moderately branched, elongate, glandular-pubescent to 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 0.5–4 cm; blade ovate to elliptic, 2–5 × 1.5–3.5 cm, margins entire or occasionally ± repand and slightly undulate, surfaces glandular-puberulent. |
| 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 ovate to elliptic, 7–13 × 4–6 mm, papery, glandular-pubescent; flowers 20–75. |
| Perianth | tube pale rose proximally to greenish distally, 15–25 mm, limb white, 7–12 mm diam. |
tube pink to magenta, 18–32 mm, limb magenta, 8–10 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 turbinate or cordate in profile, 8–15 × 6–12 mm, 0.7–2 times as long as wide, scarious, with a low, conic, inconspicuous beak at apex; wings 5, often twisted, usually smooth, occasionally rugose, not reticulate veined at apex, without cavities. |
Abronia mellifera |
Abronia macrocarpa |
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| Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | Flowering spring, opportunistically after summer rains. |
| Habitat | Sandy soils, cold desert scrub, grasslands | Sand dunes |
| Elevation | 100-2000 m [300-6600 ft] | 100 m [300 ft] |
| Distribution |
ID; OR; UT; WA; WY
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TX |
| Discussion | Of conservation concern. Abronia macrocarpa is on the United States endangered species list; and it is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (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) | L. A. Galloway: Brittonia 24: 148, fig. 1. (1972) |
| Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 65. | FNA vol. 4, p. 63. |
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