Abronia mellifera |
Abronia villosa |
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honey scented sand-verbena, white sand-verbena |
desert sand-verbena, hairy 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, often widely spreading, much branched in large plants, forming large, loose mats, elongate, usually with reddish tinge, glandular-pubescent to long viscid-villous. |
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| 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 0.5–5 cm; blade deltate-ovate to ovate or elliptic, 1–5 × 1–4.5 cm, margins entire to sinuate and ± undulate, adaxial surface glabrous or glandular-pubescent, abaxial surface glandular-pubescent. |
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| 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 lance-ovate, 2.5–11 × 1–3 mm, papery, viscid-villous; flowers 15–35. |
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| Perianth | tube pale rose proximally to greenish distally, 15–25 mm, limb white, 7–12 mm diam. |
tube pink, 10–35 mm, limb usually magenta, with light eyespot, rarely white, 6–18 mm diam. |
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| 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. |
usually winged, ± obdeltate in profile, 5–10 × 4–15 mm, indurate, ± rugose-veined, sometimes inconspicuously so; wings 3–5, not folded, without dilations, thin, truncate distally, equaling or extending slightly beyond conic apex of fruit body, interior spongy. |
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Abronia mellifera |
Abronia villosa |
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| Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | |||||
| Habitat | Sandy soils, cold desert scrub, grasslands | |||||
| Elevation | 100-2000 m [300-6600 ft] | |||||
| Distribution |
ID; OR; UT; WA; WY
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AZ; CA; NV; UT; nw Mexico
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| Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (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) | S. Watson: Amer. Naturalist 7: 302. (1873) | ||||
| Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 65. | FNA vol. 4, p. 66. | ||||
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