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Abronia fragrans
Abronia fragrans
Snowball Sand Verbena
Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson

ID: 0000 0000 0118 1687 (2018-01-21)

Copyright © 2018 Wynn Anderson

 
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  • date of photo  May 13, 2013
  • latitude 31.26590   longitude 106.50410     View on Google Maps.
  • location   Federal Highway MX 45, km 310, at old westside reststop, 6.2 miles south of paved road into Samalayuca, 7.7 miles north of Federal Aduana inspection station, (Mcp. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico)
  • family Nyctaginaceae
  • plant community   Chihuahuan Desert sand scrub on semi-stabilized sand dunes at 4281' (1305m)
  • notes   erect plants on pale reddish quartz sands of low semi-stabilized dunes in the Médanos de Samalayuca Natural Protected Area west of the active dunes field. Very attractive, fragrant population at the southern extreme in range.
  • keywords: CDR, Chihuahuan Desert, Samalayuca
  • contributor's ID #  CDR 39
  • photo category: Plant - annual/perennial

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
  • common names   Snowball Sand Verbena, Fragrant San Verbena, Hearts's Delight (photographer)
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