Purple Sand Verbena

Abronia angustifolia Greene, Pittonia 3: 344. 1898
Abronia mellifera Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 170. 1859. Not A. mellifera Dougl. 1829.
Abronia turbinata Torr.; S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 285, in part. 1871.
Abronia turbinata stenophylla Heimerl, Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 5: 190. 1901.
Abronia arizonica Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 319. 1909.
Abronia lobatifolia Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 319. 1909.
Abronia Torreyi Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 319. 1909.
Annual, much branched, the branches stout or slender, ascending or decumbent, 1-5 dm. long, densely viscid-puberulent or short-villous; petioles slender, 1-7.5 cm. long; leaf-blades very variable in outline, mostly ovate-oblong or lance-oblong, sometimes broadly ovate-oval, oval, deltoid, lanceolate, or narrowly lance-oblong, 1.5-5 cm. long, 0.5-3 cm. wide, subcordate to narrowly cuneate at the base, obtuse to attenuate at the apex, entire or undulate, rarely shallowly lobed, viscid-puberulent or glabrate, often glaucescent beneath; peduncles 2-7 cm. long, viscid-puberulent or densely viscid-villous ; bracts lanceolate or lance-linear, 6-12 mm. long, attenuate or long-attenuate, greenish, viscid-puberulent; perianth 15-20 mm. long, viscid-villous or puberulent outside, the limb 6-8 mm. wide, purplish-red; fruit about 6 mm. long, broadly turbinate, deeply lobed, thin-walled, villous above, the lobes acutish, ending above in flat disks; seed lance-oblong, 1.5-2 mm. long, deep-brown or black, lustrous.
Type locality: White Sands, Otero County, New Mexico.
dTstribution : In sandy soil, western Texas to southern Anzona, southward m Chihuahua.