Pink Sand Verbena

Abronia breviflora Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 312
1909.
Annual, much branched, the branches slender or stout, prostrate, densely viscid-puberulent and more or less shortvillous ; petioles slender, 1.5-4 cm. long; leaf-blades broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, 2-3.5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, rounded to obtuse at the apex, entire, green, sparsely and minutely viscid-puberulent ; peduncles slender, 2-4 cm. long, viscid-puberulent or shortvillous ; bracts linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 5-6 mm. long, attenuate or long-attenuate, shortvillous outside, scarious; perianth 12 mm. long, the tube green, shortvillous with white hairs, the limb 5 mm. broad, purplish-red; fruit about 8 mm. long, the body tapering to each end, indurate, short-villous above, nearly smooth, the wings thin, whitish or stramineous, narrow, narrowed at both ends, the wings sometimes abortive; seed narrowly oblong, 2.5-3 cm. wide, dark-brown, lustrous.
Type locality: Mendocino, California.
Distribution : On sandy beaches, Humboldt and Mendocino counties, California.

Abronia acutalata Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 312
1909.
Annual, much branched, the branches prostrate, stout, short-villous with viscid whitish hairs; petioles stout, 1-4.5 cm. long; leaf -blades ovate to ovate-oval or oval, 2-5 cm. long, 0.8-3 cm. wide, rounded to acute at the base and often very unequal, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, entire, green, minutely viscid-puberulent or glabrous; peduncles slender, 2.5-4.5 cm. long, villous with short viscid hairs; bracts lanceolate, very acute, 5 mm. long, viscid-villous; perianth 12 mm. long, the tube villous with short viscid hairs, green, the limb 5 mm. wide, purplish-red; fruit about 1 cm. long and wide, the body shortvillous above, the wings thin, prolonged above the body and acute, narrowed below.
Type locality: Clallam County, Washington.
Distribution: On sandy beaches, Clallam County, Washington.