Pink Sand Verbena

Abronia alba Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. III. 1: 97. 1898
Abronia umbellata alba M. E. Jones, Contr. West. Bot. 10: 45. 1902. Abronia insularis Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 311. 1909. Abronia neurophylla Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 314. 1909.
Perennial, from an elongate woody root; stems stout or slender, 2-10 dm. long, sparsely branched, stramineous or whitish, often tinged with red, viscid-puberulent or glabrate, the internodes usually' longer than the leaves; petioles slender, 1-3.5 cm. long, viscid-puberulent or glabrate; leaf -blades irregular in outline, suborbicular, rounded-rhombic, oval, ovate-oval, deltoidovate, or elliptic-oblong, 1-4 5 cm. long, 1-3.5 cm. wide, truncate to obtuse at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, entire or subsinuate, succulent, glabrous or sparsely viscid-puberulent; peduncles slender, 4-12 cm. long, viscid-puberulent or glabrate; bracts lanceolate, 5—7 mm. long, acute or attenuate, scarious, viscid-puberulent; flowers numerous, the perianth 15-20 mm. long, the tube slender, greenish-pink, viscid-puberulent, the limb 7-10 mm. broad, rose-purple or white; fruit about 1 cm. long, puberulent or short-villous above, the body indurate, 1-costate in the angles, 5-winged, the wings coriaceous, conspicuously veined, prolonged above the body and rounded, narrowed below; seed elliptic-oblong, 4—5 mm.
long, brown.
Type locality: San Nicolas Island, California.
Distribution: Sandy seashores, San Nicolas and San Clemente islands, and on the adjacent