Abronia turbinata |
Abronia carletonii |
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annual abronia, trans montane abronia, trans montane sand verbena |
carleton's sand verbena |
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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. |
ascending, infrequently procumbent, unbranched to few branched, elongate, often whitish, viscid-puberulent to glandular-pubescent. |
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 1–4.5 cm; blade lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 2.5–5 × 0.5–3 cm, margins entire to ± repand and undulate, adaxial surface glabrous, abaxial surface glabrous or puberulent. |
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, 4–8 × 2–5 mm, papery, apex acute to acuminate, glandular-pubescent, sometimes villous basally; flowers 15–30. |
Perianth | tube greenish to coral pink, 6–18 mm, limb white to pale pink, 5–8 mm diam. |
tube greenish, 8–16 mm, limb pale pink to light magenta, 5–7 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. |
turbinate, 4–17 × 3–5 mm, scarious, apex broadly obtuse and beaked; wings 5, thin walled, truncate and conspicuously dilated distally, dilations as wide as long and flattened perpendicular to plane of lamina, cavities extending throughout. |
Abronia turbinata |
Abronia carletonii |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | Flowering spring–fall. |
Habitat | Sandy soils, desert scrub | Calcareous or gypseous, clay or silty soils, shrublands |
Elevation | 900-2500 m (3000-8200 ft) | 1000-1600 m (3300-5200 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; NV; OR
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CO; NM; TX |
Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 66. | FNA vol. 4, p. 65. |
Parent taxa | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia |
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Synonyms | A. nealleyi | |
Name authority | Torrey ex S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 285, plate 31, figs. 1–5, 8, 9. (1871) | J. M. Coulter & Fisher: Bot. Gaz. 17: 349. (1892) |
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