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词条 Abronia alpina
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|authority = Brandegee
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Abronia alpina is a rare species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family known by the common names Ramshaw Meadows sand verbena and Ramshaw Meadows abronia. It is endemic to Tulare County, California, where it is known from only one area high in the Sierra Nevada.

Description

This is a small, squat perennial herb which forms a flat to mounded mat on the floor of alpine meadow habitat. The leaves have rounded blades each less than a centimeter long at the ends of short petioles. The foliage and stems are fuzzy and glandular. The plant blooms in clusters of up to five white to pink or lavender flowers around a centimeter wide and long.

Further reading

  • {{cite journal|last1=Jabis|first1=Meredith D.|last2=Ayers|first2=Tina J.|last3=Allan|first3=Gerard J.|title=Pollinator-Mediated Gene Flow Fosters Genetic Variability in a Narrow Alpine Endemic, Abronia Alpina (Nyctaginaceae)|journal=American Journal of Botany|date=Oct 2011|volume=98|issue=10|pages=1583–1594|doi=10.3732/ajb.1000515|pmid=21980161}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Jabis|first1=Meredith D.|last2=Ayers|first2=Tina J.|title=Habitat Suitability as a Limiting Factor for Establishment in a Narrow Endemic: Abronia alpina (Nyctaginaceae)|journal=Western North American Naturalist|date=August 2014|volume=74|issue=2|pages=185–200|doi=10.3398/064.074.0204}}

External links

  • Jepson Manual Treatment for Abronia alpina
  • USDA Plants Profile for Abronia alpina
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080705135331/http://www.fws.gov/sacramento/es/plant_spp_accts/ramshaw_meadows_sand_verbena.htm U.S.FWS Species Account]
  • UC CalPhotos gallery of Abronia alpina
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6 : Abronia (plant)|Endemic flora of California|Flora of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Natural history of Tulare County, California|Taxa named by Townshend Stith Brandegee|Plants described in 1899

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