Abronia turbinata |
Abronia umbellata |
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annual abronia, trans montane abronia, trans montane sand verbena |
beach sand verbena, pink sand-verbena, purple sand verbena |
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Habit | Plants annual, infrequently perennial. | Plants annual. | ||||||||
Stems | decumbent to ascending, much branched, elongate, reddish at least basally, glandular-pubescent, rarely glabrous or viscid-pubescent. |
prostrate, much branched in large plants, forming loose mats, elongate, glandular-pubescent or glabrous. |
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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 1–6 cm; blade ovate, elliptic, or rhombic, 1.5–6.8 × 0.8–4.7 cm, margins entire to ± repand and undulate, surfaces glandular-puberulent to glandular-villous, usually ± glaucous. |
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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 lanceolate to ovate, 5–7 × 3–5 mm, papery, glandular-puberulent to viscid-villous; flowers 8–27. |
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Perianth | tube greenish to coral pink, 6–18 mm, limb white to pale pink, 5–8 mm diam. |
tube magenta to greenish, 6.5–18 mm, limb magenta, 6–16 mm diam., throat surrounded by white to yellowish white eyespot. |
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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. |
± obdeltate in profile, 6–12 × 6–16(–24) mm, indurate, smooth, not rugose veined, apex beaklike; wings 5, not folded, poorly to very well developed, from slightly shorter than beaklike apex of body to prolonged beyond beak, thin, without cavities. |
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Abronia turbinata |
Abronia umbellata |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | |||||||||
Habitat | Sandy soils, desert scrub | |||||||||
Elevation | 900-2500 m (3000-8200 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA; NV; OR
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CA; OR; WA; BC; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). S. S. Tillett (1967) stated that Abronia umbellata is sufficiently similar to the inland A. villosa that without information regarding locality some specimens would be very difficult to identify. He also considered A. umbellata subsp. alba (Eastwood) Munz, subsp. platyphylla (Standley) Munz, and subsp. variabilis (Standley) Munz, A. insularis Standley, and A. neurophylla Standley to be introgressive hybrids of A. umbellata with A. maritima. The name Abronia gracilis Bentham has appeared in regional floras and treatments of Nyctaginaceae since Standley’s continental treatment (1918). S. S. Tillett (1967) stated that the taxon was reported for San Diego County, California, but cited no documenting specimens. I. L. Wiggins (F. Shreve and I. L. Wiggins 1964) considered only A. gracilis subsp. platyphylla (Standley) Ferris to enter the United States, in San Diego County, an entity considered by Tillett to be an intergrade between A. umbellata and A. maritima. The distinctions among A. gracilis, A. umbellata, and A. villosa are subtle at best, and the group is in need of careful study. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 66. | FNA vol. 4, p. 67. | ||||||||
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) | Lamarck: Tabl. Encycl. 1: 469, plate 105. (1791) | ||||||||
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