UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR0101670
UCR-BPS-290436
UCR-290436
Abronia villosa var. villosa S. Wats.
Nyctaginaceae
Steve Boyd
12326
2019-03-08
2019-3-8
United States, California, Riverside, Palm Desert, just north of Varner Road (and Interstate 10), c. 1.5 miles west of Washington Street, just west of Palm Springs RV Resort
33.765 -116.31389
34 meters (112ft)
Sandy flats in area of abandoned agricultural fields (formerly blow sands) with dense cover of annuals, especially Eremalche exilis and Plantago ovata, but also Abronia villosa, Chylismia claviformis, Cryptantha angustifolia, Brassica tournefortii, Erodium cicutarium, and Schismus.
Flowering
Prostrate annual, flowers dark pink, aromatic. Scattered.