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| name = ''Abronia villosa''
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|common_name=Sand verbena
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|water=moderate, less when dormant
| color = IndianRed
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|flowers=purple, pink
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| divisio = Magnoliophyta
| classis = Magnoliopsida
| ordo = Caryophyllales
| familia = Nyctaginaceae
| genus = Abronia
| species = villosa
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'''''Abronia villosa''''' is a species of [[Abronia (plant)|sand-verbena]] known by the common name '''desert sand-verbena'''. It is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico and the southern California and Baja coast. It is a short, hairy annual wildflower which grows in creeping prostrate masses along the ground. It has oval-shaped dull green leaves and many [[Peduncle (botany)|peduncles]] bearing rounded [[inflorescence]]s of bright magenta or purplish-pink flowers. It grows in the sand of the deserts and coastlines.It has a very sweet Fragrance, and is also very sticky. They usually grow between February and May.
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Perennial: smaller and slenderer than ''[[Abronia umbellata]]'' and covered with a glandular-villous pubescence: leaves rarely 1 in. long: flowers 5-15 in a cluster, rose. Calif., Utah.—Well suited to sandy and dry situations.}}
Perennial: smaller and slenderer than ''[[Abronia umbellata]]'' and covered with a glandular-villous pubescence: leaves rarely 1 in. long: flowers 5-15 in a cluster, rose. Calif., Utah.—Well suited to sandy and dry situations.}}
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Latest revision as of 21:09, 11 March 2010

 Abronia villosa subsp. var.  Sand verbena
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Abronia villosa is a species of sand-verbena known by the common name desert sand-verbena. It is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico and the southern California and Baja coast. It is a short, hairy annual wildflower which grows in creeping prostrate masses along the ground. It has oval-shaped dull green leaves and many peduncles bearing rounded inflorescences of bright magenta or purplish-pink flowers. It grows in the sand of the deserts and coastlines.It has a very sweet Fragrance, and is also very sticky. They usually grow between February and May.


Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Perennial: smaller and slenderer than Abronia umbellata and covered with a glandular-villous pubescence: leaves rarely 1 in. long: flowers 5-15 in a cluster, rose. Calif., Utah.—Well suited to sandy and dry situations.

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