Abronia mellifera |
Abronia pogonantha |
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honey scented sand-verbena, white sand-verbena |
Mohave sand verbena, Mojave sand verbena |
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| Habit | Plants perennial. | Plants annual. |
| Stems | decumbent to ascending, much branched, elongate, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. |
decumbent to ascending, little to moderately branched, elongate, glandular-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 0.8–4 cm; blade ovate to oblong-ovate, 2–5 × 1.5–3.5 cm, margins entire to ± sinuate and undulate, 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 longer than subtending petiole; bracts lanceolate to broadly ovate, 4–9 × 1.8–6 mm, papery, puberulent to glandular-pubescent, often villous basally; flowers 12–24. |
| Perianth | tube pale rose proximally to greenish distally, 15–25 mm, limb white, 7–12 mm diam. |
tube rose red, at least basally, 10–20 mm, limb white to 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. |
winged, broadly cordate or ± round in profile, 4–6 × 4–6 mm, coriaceous, apex deeply notched with small beak; wings 2(–3), infrequently partially folded together, without dilations, interior spongy. |
Abronia mellifera |
Abronia pogonantha |
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| Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | Flowering spring–summer. |
| Habitat | Sandy soils, cold desert scrub, grasslands | Sandy soils, Joshua tree desert scrub |
| Elevation | 100-2000 m [300-6600 ft] | 100-1600 m [300-5200 ft] |
| Distribution |
ID; OR; UT; WA; WY
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CA
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| Name authority | Douglas ex Hooker: Bot. Mag. 56: plate 2879. (1829) | Heimerl: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 11: 87, plate 2, fig. 4. (1889) |
| Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 65. | FNA vol. 4, p. 66. |
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