Abronia villosa |
Abronia latifolia |
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desert sand-verbena, hairy sand verbena |
coastal sand-verbena, yellow sand-verbena |
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Habit | Plants annual. | Plants perennial. | ||||
Stems | 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. |
prostrate, often buried in sand, usually much branched, forming large mats, succulent, densely glandular-pubescent to glabrous. |
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Leaves | 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. |
1–6 cm; blade deltate-ovate to reniform, 2.2–4.8 × 2.7–5.2 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes slightly repand and undulate, surfaces glabrous or viscid-puberulent. |
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Inflorescences | peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts lanceolate to lance-ovate, 2.5–11 × 1–3 mm, papery, viscid-villous; flowers 15–35. |
peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts ovate, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, thin, yellowish green, glandular-pubescent; flowers 17–35. |
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Perianth | tube pink, 10–35 mm, limb usually magenta, with light eyespot, rarely white, 6–18 mm diam. |
tube yellowish green, 6.5–18 mm, limb yellow, 8–13 mm diam., lobes slightly to moderately reflexed. |
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Fruits | 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. |
winged, ± rhombic in profile, attenuate at both ends, 8–15 × 6–14 mm, scarious; wings 4–5, thin walled, small, cavities extending into wing. |
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Abronia villosa |
Abronia latifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | |||||
Habitat | Sandy soils, coastal scrub, lees of dunes adjacent to strand | |||||
Elevation | 0-50 m (0-200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NV; UT; nw Mexico
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CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
S. S. Tillett (1967) considered plants of Abronia umbellata var. minor (Standley) Munz to be introgressants between A. latifolia and A. umbellata. (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. 68. | ||||
Parent taxa | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia | ||||
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Name authority | S. Watson: Amer. Naturalist 7: 302. (1873) | Eschscholtz: Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg Hist. Acad. 10: 281. (1826) | ||||
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