Desert Sand Verbena

Abronia pinetorum Abrams, Bull. Torrey Club 32: 537. 1905
Abronia aurita Abrams, Bull. Torrey Club 32: 537. 1905. Abronia villosa aurita Jepson, Fl. Calif. 455. 1914.
Annual, much branched, the branches ascending, decumbent, or procumbent, 2-8 dm. long, stout, viscid-villous with long slender hairs; petioles slender, 1-5 cm. long, villous; leafblades rhombicorbicular to oval or deltoid-ovate, 1.5-8 cm. long, 1-6.5 cm. wide, subcordate to obtuse at the base, sometimes short-decurrent, broadly rounded to obtuse at the apex, entire or undulate, viscid-villous on both surfaces or sometimes glabrate above; peduncles stout or slender, 3-12.5 cm. long, villous; bracts linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 8-12 mm. long, attenuate or long-attenuate, viscid-villous outside; perianth 2.5-3.5 cm. long, purplish-red, the tube puberulent, short-villous, or glabrate above, long-villous below, the limb 1.5-2 cm. wide; fruit 7-15 mm. long and usually broader, the body indurate, rugoseveined, the 3 or 4 wings thin, broad, usually extended above the body, rounded, acutish, or truncate at the apex, smooth or obscurely rugose-veined, stramineous or whitish, usually villous-ciliate; seed oblong, 2-4 mm. long, brown, lustrous.
Type locality : Open pine forests, Thomas Valley, San Jacinto Mountains California. Distribution: Riverside and San Diego counties, California.