Abronia turbinata |
Abronia ameliae |
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annual abronia, trans montane abronia, trans montane sand verbena |
amelia's sand verbena, heart's delight |
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Habit | Plants annual, infrequently perennial. | Plants perennial. |
Stems | decumbent to ascending, much branched, elongate, reddish at least basally, glandular-pubescent, rarely glabrous or viscid-pubescent. |
procumbent to semierect, slightly to moderately branched, elongate, often reddish at nodes, viscid. |
Leaves | 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. |
petiole 1–9 cm; blade deltate-ovate to elliptic, 2–8 × 2–6.5 cm, margins repand to sinuate, frequently undulate, adaxial surface glandular-puberulent, abaxial surface glandular-pubescent. |
Inflorescences | peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts lanceolate to ovate, 3–10 × 1–5 mm, papery, puberulent to densely glandular-pubescent; flowers 15–35. |
peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts ovate to elliptic, 5–16 × 2–10 mm, papery, glandular-pubescent; flowers 20–75. |
Perianth | tube greenish to coral pink, 6–18 mm, limb white to pale pink, 5–8 mm diam. |
tube magenta, 12–25 mm, limb bright magenta, 8–10 mm diam. |
Fruits | 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. |
narrowly turbinate, 6–9 × 3–4.5 mm, ± 2 times as long as wide, scarious, base attenuate, rounded or truncate at apex, with a broadly conic beak; wings 5, finely reticulate, thin walled, narrow, cavities extending throughout. |
Abronia turbinata |
Abronia ameliae |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | Flowering winter–spring. |
Habitat | Sandy soils, desert scrub | Sandy soils, live-oak grasslands |
Elevation | 900-2500 m (3000-8200 ft) | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; NV; OR
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TX |
Discussion | Abronia ameliae has limited cultivation as an ornamental in southern Texas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 66. | FNA vol. 4, p. 63. |
Parent taxa | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia |
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Name authority | Torrey ex S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 285, plate 31, figs. 1–5, 8, 9. (1871) | Lundell: Wrightia 1: 54. (1945) |
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