Slender Sand Verbena

Abronia gracilis Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 44. 1844
Abronia platyphylla Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 314. 1909. Abronia alba platyphylla Jepson, Fl. Calif. 455. 1914.
Annual, much branched, the branches slender, 1-6 dm. long, prostrate, viscidvillous or rarely only viscid-puberulent; petioles slender, 1-3 cm. long; leaf -blades oblong to oval, ovate, or suborbicular, 2-4.5 cm. long, 0.7-3 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, broadly rounded to obtuse at the apex, green, undulate or often deeply sinuate-lobed, viscid-puberulent or villous, often glabrate on the upper surface; peduncles slender, 2-10 cm. long, copiously viscidvillous or rarely glabrate; bracts ovate, ovate-oblong, or broadly ovate, 6-10 mm. long, attenuate or long-attenuate, villous outside, scarious; perianth about 2 cm. long, purplish-red or pink, the tube viscid-puberulent or villous, the limb 7-8 mm. wide; fruit 6—11 mm. long, stramineous or whitish, the body indurate, rugoseveined or nearly smooth, villous above, the wings 3-5, broad, thin, smooth or obscurely veined, prolonged above the body and rounded, with usually narrow sinuses, only slightly narrowed below, villous-ciliate above; seed oblong, 2.5-3 mm. long, dark-brown, lustrous.
Type locality: Magdalena Bay, Lower California.
Distribution: On sandy beaches, Lower California and San Diego County, California.