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Wildflowers:
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Desert Sand Verbena
Abronia villosa
Height: Typically 4 to 12 inches tall, often spreading wider than it is tall
Habitat: Sandy desert flats, dunes, and washes
Elevation: Found below 5,000 feet
Range: Southwestern United States—especially in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts, including parts of California, Arizona, Nevada, and Baja California
Description:
Desert Sand Verbena is a soft, sprawling annual that blooms in eye-catching clusters of pink to purple flowers. Its stems and leaves are sticky and covered in fine hairs, giving it a velvety feel. The leaves are oval-shaped and usually gray-green. It’s one of the most noticeable wildflowers in a good bloom year, sometimes carpeting large areas with vivid color.
Uses:
Primarily known for its role in desert wildflower displays. It provides nectar for pollinators, especially moths and butterflies. While not widely used traditionally for food or medicine, it’s a key part of the desert’s spring beauty.
Note:
Desert Sand Verbena is one of the stars of the spring bloom in sandy areas. It's short-lived but spectacular, thriving after good winter rains and fading with the onset of heat.
Found in
creosote bush scrub
and open sandy areas to 3000 ft.
Blooms February to July.
Peak Blooming Periods for Desert Wildflowers
Dominant Species: desert lilies, lupine, verbena, primrose. ... Dominant Species: desert star, blazing star, monkey flower, poppies, verbena, evening primrose.
Silurian Valley - Devil's Playground: Mojave Desert Ecological ...
The Desert sand - verbena series is common on stabilized dunes. ... Grasslands: Alkali sacaton series, Big galleta series, Desert sand - verbena series, Indian ...
The Mojave Desert - Adaptations, Plants
Examples of such wildflowers are sand verbena (Abronia villosa), Mojave aster ( Xylorhiza tortifolia), and dune evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides).
Death Valley Wildflowers
Dominant species: desert star, blazing star, desert gold, mimulus, encelia, poppies, verbena, evening primrose, phacelia, and various species of cacti ( usually ...
Red Rock Canyon - Mojave California
Goldfields, lupines, indian paintbrush, sand verbena and two hundred other species of flowering plants may color the landscape in April. In the fall rabbitbrush is ...
Death Valley Ecology
Grasslands: Desert sand - verbena series, Indian ricegrass series, Pickleweed series, Saltgrass series. Shrublands: Allscale series, Brittlebush series, Creosote ...
The End of the Adventure
The shoots of the purple verbena ran over the ground, sending up little stems to hold its many-floretted crowns. Even the thorny cactus bloomed with a crimson, ...
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