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Abronia latifolia

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Filed as Abronia latifolia [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Filed as Abronia latifolia [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Abronia latifolia Eschsch. [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Abronia latifolia Eschsch. [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Abronia latifolia Eschsch. [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Filed as Abronia latifolia [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Filed as Abronia arenaria Menzies ex Hook. [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Abronia latifolia Eschsch. [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Filed as Abronia latifolia Eschsch. [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Filed as Abronia latifolia [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Type of Abronia arenaria Menzies ex Hook. [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
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Identification
Abronia arenaria Menzies ex Hook. [family NYCTAGINACEAE ] Abronia latifolia Eschsch. [family NYCTAGINACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Abronia arenaria
  • Abronia latifolia
Common name
  • Yellow sand-verbena, Flora of North America Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Abronia latifolia Eschscholtz [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 4,
Names
Abronia latifolia Eschscholtz [family NYCTAGINACEAE], Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg Hist. Acad., 10: 281. 1826
Treatment Author(s)
Leo A. Galloway
Information
Plants perennial. Stems prostrate, often buried in sand, usually much branched, forming large mats, succulent, densely glandular-pubescent to glabrous. Leaves: 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. Inflorescences: peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts ovate, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, thin, yellowish green, glandular-pubescent; flowers 17–35. Perianth: tube yellowish green, 6.5–18 mm, limb yellow, 8–13 mm diam., lobes slightly to moderately reflexed. Fruits winged, ± rhombic in profile, attenuate at both ends, 8–15 × 6–14 mm, scarious; wings 4–5, thin walled, small, cavities extending into wing.
Phenology
mar-may (spring), jun-aug (summer)
Altitude range
0–50 m;
Distribution
USA Calif.USA Oreg.USA Wash.Canada B.C.
Discussion
S. S. Tillett (1967) considered plants of Abronia umbellata var. minor (Standley) Munz to be introgressants between A. latifolia and A. umbellata.

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