Abronia glaucescens

Abronia glaucescens (A. Nelson) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat
Herb. 12: 326. 1909.
Abronia fragrans glaucescens A. Nelson, Bot. Gaz. 34: 364. 1902.
Perennial; stems ascending or procumbent, 3-10 dm. long, stout, glaucescent or greenish, often tinged with red, glabrous, or sparsely puberulent above, the internodes elongate; petioles slender or stout, 1-3.5 cm. long, glabrous or obscurely puberulent; leaf-blades rounded-deltoid, ovate-deltoid, ovate-oblong, or lance-oblong, 3-8 cm. long, 1-4.5 cm. wide, subcordate to obtuse at the base, broadly rounded to acute at the apex, glabrous or sparsely and minutely puberulent, glaucescent beneath; peduncles slender, 4-18 cm. long, glabrous or puberulent; bracts broadly oval or ovate-oval, 11-15 mm. long, 6-9 mm. wide, acute, scarious, white, glabrous or nearly so; flowers very numerous, the perianth 2-3 mm. long, viscid-puberulent, the tube slender, greenish, the limb 7-8 mm. broad, white; fruit biturbinate, 7-10 mm. long, 3-5 mm. thick, coriaceous, olivaceous-stramineous, sparsely puberulent, shall owly lobed or smooth, the lobes compressed, coarsely reticulate-veined, truncate or usually narrowed above; seed obovoid, 2.5-3 mm. long, castaneous, lustrous.
Type locality: Wyoming. Distribution: Wyoming and Colorado.