Abronia pogonantha |
Abronia villosa |
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Mohave sand verbena, Mojave sand verbena |
desert sand-verbena, hairy sand verbena |
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Habit | Plants annual. | Plants annual. | ||||
Stems | decumbent to ascending, little to moderately branched, elongate, 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 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. |
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 broadly ovate, 4–9 × 1.8–6 mm, papery, puberulent to glandular-pubescent, often villous basally; flowers 12–24. |
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 rose red, at least basally, 10–20 mm, limb white to pink, 6–8 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 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. |
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 pogonantha |
Abronia villosa |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | |||||
Habitat | Sandy soils, Joshua tree desert scrub | |||||
Elevation | 100-1600 m (300-5200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA
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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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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 66. | FNA vol. 4, p. 66. | ||||
Parent taxa | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia | ||||
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Name authority | Heimerl: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 11: 87, plate 2, fig. 4. (1889) | S. Watson: Amer. Naturalist 7: 302. (1873) | ||||
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