About Abronia turbinata Torr. ex S.Watson
Abronia turbinata Torr. ex S.Watson is a species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family, commonly called transmontane sand-verbena. It is native to eastern California, Oregon, and western Nevada, where it grows in desert and plateau scrub habitats. It is an erect or spreading herb, most often an annual, with maximum stem height or length approaching 50 centimeters. It produces several thick green leaves that range from somewhat oval to nearly round, and are a few centimeters wide. Inflorescences grow from the stem on peduncles several centimeters long, and hold hemispheric or spreading clusters containing up to 35 white to pinkish flowers. Each small flower in the cluster is a narrow tube up to 2 centimeters long, which abruptly spreads out into a lobed corolla. Its fruit is a few millimeters long, and has hollow, inflated wings.
