Galisteo Sand Verbena

Plants perennial, acaulescent or rarely with short branched aerial caudices, cespitose. Leaves: petiole 1-3.5 cm; blade linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 1.5-8 × 0.3-0.4 cm, 5 or more times as long as wide, margins entire, plane, surfaces glabrous or puberulent. Inflorescences: bracts broadly ovate to ovate-elliptic, 7-11 × 2-8 mm, thinly papery, glabrate to minutely glandular-puberulent; flowers 12-25. Perianth: tube greenish pink, 3-8 mm, limb pale pink, 3-4 mm diam. Fruits winged, ± obdeltate in profile, 6-9 × 5-8 mm, scarious, apex slightly beaked; wings 5, thin walled, apex tapered to broadly obtuse, without dilations, cavities extending throughout .

N.Mex.

Flowering fall.

Shrubby gypsum hills; of conservation concern; 1500-2000m.

Abronia bigelovii Heimerl, Smithson. Misc. Coll. 53: 197. 1908
Cespitose perennial from a thick woody branched caudex; leaves all basal, densely fasciculate upon the caudices, the blades linear-oblong, linear, or linear-oblanceolate, about 3.5 cm. long, 3.5-4 mm. wide, obtuse at the apex, entire, green on both sides, glabrous, or minutely puberulent when young, gradually narrowed into a petiole equaling or longer than the blade; peduncles scapelike, 5-7 cm. long, slender, puberulent; heads many-flowered, the bracts oval or broadly oval-ovate, 8-10 mm. long, 3.5-7 mm. wide, abruptly acute or short-acuminate, scarious, minutely puberulent; perianth densely puberulent; anthocarp 6-7 mm. long, obpyramidal, lobed, thin, truncate above and pointed, densely puberulent.
Type) locality: Near Galisteo, New Mexico. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.