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|accepted_name=Abronia fragrans
|accepted_authority=Nuttall ex Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc.
|place=5: 261. 1853
|year=1853
}}
|common_names=Fragrant white sand-verbena
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Abronia;Abronia fragrans
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyctaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Abronia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Abronia fragrans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 62, 64
|treatment_page=page 63
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial. <b>Stems</b> procumbent to semierect, slightly to moderately branched, elongate, sometimes reddish at base and nodes, glandular-pubescent, viscid. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 0.5–8 cm; blade ovate to triangular or lanceolate, 3–12 × 1–8 cm, margins entire to subsinuate and slightly undulate, adaxial surface glandular-pubescent, abaxial surface more densely and longer pubescent, or sometimes villous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts linear-lanceolate to oval-ovate, 7–25 × 2–12 mm, scarious, glandular-puberulent to short villous; flowers 30–80. <b>Perianth</b>: tube greenish to reddish purple, 10–25 mm, limb white, (2–)6–10 mm diam. <b>Fruits</b> winged or not, fusiform and appearing deeply grooved when wingless, when wings not distorted, fruit ± cordate in profile, tapered at base, with prominent beak in broad notch at apex, 5–12 × 2.5–7 mm, indurate, rugose veined or, if wings distorted, fruit ± rhombic in profile and tapered at both ends, or obdeltate and truncate at apex, with prominent beak; wings 4–5, thick, narrow, not dilated at apex, cavities extending throughout; peripheral fruits often distorted, S-shaped in lateral view.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Dry sandy soils, scrub and grasslands
|elevation=400-2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Kans.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
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name=Abronia fragrans
|authority=Nuttall ex Hooker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Dry sandy soils, scrub and grasslands
|elevation=400-2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Kans.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
|reference=None
|publication title=Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc.
|publication year=1853
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Abronia
|species=Abronia fragrans
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