Abronia mellifera |
Abronia turbinata |
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honey scented sand-verbena, white sand-verbena |
annual abronia, trans montane abronia, trans montane sand verbena |
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| Habit | Plants perennial. | Plants annual, infrequently perennial. |
| Stems | decumbent to ascending, much branched, elongate, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. |
decumbent to ascending, much branched, elongate, reddish at least basally, glandular-pubescent, rarely glabrous or 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 1–4.5 cm; blade broadly ovate to orbiculate, 1–5 × 0.5–3 cm, margins entire or ± repand and undulate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely 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 ovate, 3–10 × 1–5 mm, papery, puberulent to densely glandular-pubescent; flowers 15–35. |
| Perianth | tube pale rose proximally to greenish distally, 15–25 mm, limb white, 7–12 mm diam. |
tube greenish to coral pink, 6–18 mm, limb white to pale pink, 5–8 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, turbinate, 3–8 × 3–6 mm, coriaceous, apex broadly tapered to prominent beak; wings (2–)5 (when 2, folded together) truncate distally with conspicuous dilations, cavities extending throughout. |
Abronia mellifera |
Abronia turbinata |
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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] | 900-2500 m [3000-8200 ft] |
| Distribution |
ID; OR; UT; WA; WY
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CA; NV; OR
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| Name authority | Douglas ex Hooker: Bot. Mag. 56: plate 2879. (1829) | Torrey ex S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 285, plate 31, figs. 1–5, 8, 9. (1871) |
| Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 65. | FNA vol. 4, p. 66. |
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