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| name = ''Abronia latifolia''
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| ordo = [[Caryophyllales]]
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| classis = Magnoliopsida
| familia = [[Nyctaginaceae]]
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| ordo = Caryophyllales
| genus = ''[[Abronia (plant)|Abronia]]''
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| familia = Nyctaginaceae
| species = '''''A. latifolia'''''
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| genus = Abronia
| binomial = ''Abronia latifolia''
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| species = latifolia
| binomial_authority = [[Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz|Eschsch.]]
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{{Inc|A. latifolia (syn. A. arenaria). Perennial: whole plant viscid-pubescent; [[prostrate]]: leaves thick, [[ovate]], [[orbicular]] or [[reniform]], [[obtuse]], stalked: flowers fragrant, 1/2 - 3/4 in. long, lemon-yellow. June, July. Seacoasts, Cent. Calif, and N.}}
  
The perennial flower '''''Abronia latifolia''''' is a species of [[Abronia (plant)|sand-verbena]] known commonly as the '''coastal''', or '''yellow sand-verbena'''. It is native to the west coast of North America, from southern California to the Canadian border.
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The plant bears attractive neatly-rounded heads of small, bright golden flowers. The individual flowers have no petals; rather, they are composed of yellow [[bract]]s forming a trumpet-shaped [[sepal|calyx]] about the [[stamen]]s. It bears a small, winged fruit. The plant grows in succulent mats on sand or other coastal substrate. The roots of the plant are edible.
 
 
==References==
 
==References==
*[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ABLA2 USDA Plants Profile]
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*Munz, Philip A. (2003). ''Introduction to Shore Wildflowers of California, Oregon, and Washington''. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Latest revision as of 18:38, 1 April 2009


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Plant Characteristics
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Scientific Names

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Read about Abronia latifolia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

A. latifolia (syn. A. arenaria). Perennial: whole plant viscid-pubescent; prostrate: leaves thick, ovate, orbicular or reniform, obtuse, stalked: flowers fragrant, 1/2 - 3/4 in. long, lemon-yellow. June, July. Seacoasts, Cent. Calif, and N.

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