Abronia villosa |
Abronia maritima |
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desert sand-verbena, hairy sand verbena |
red sand-verbena, sticky 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, often extensively branched, forming large mats, succulent, densely glandular-pubescent. |
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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. |
petiole 0.5–3 cm; blade elliptic to oblong or nearly obovate, 5–6.8 × 2.3–4.3 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes ± repand and undulate, surfaces minutely 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 lanceolate to lance-ovate, 7–11 × 3–4 mm, papery, minutely glandular to glandular-pubescent; flowers 10–18. |
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Perianth | tube pink, 10–35 mm, limb usually magenta, with light eyespot, rarely white, 6–18 mm diam. |
tube red to reddish green, 6–10 mm, limb deep purplish red, 7–10 mm diam., lobes tightly 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. |
turbinate, 10–14 × 6–18 mm, thick, indurate, apex irregularly truncate and ± beaked; wings 3–5, without cavities. |
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Abronia villosa |
Abronia maritima |
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Phenology | Flowering year-round. | |||||
Habitat | Foredunes and unstable dunes near strand | |||||
Elevation | 0-50 m (0-200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NV; UT; nw Mexico
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CA; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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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. 65. | ||||
Parent taxa | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia | Nyctaginaceae > Abronia | ||||
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Name authority | S. Watson: Amer. Naturalist 7: 302. (1873) | Nuttall ex S. Watson: in W. H. Brewer et al., Bot. California 2: 4. (1880) | ||||
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