Abronia umbellataLam.

Pink Sand Verbena

WFO wfo-0000511592 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Abronia umbellata, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. a Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 204036277
Abronia umbellata, photographed by Rachel Whitt
fig. b Rachel Whitt, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190516424
Abronia umbellata, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. c James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186804064
Abronia umbellata, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. d James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186480477
Abronia umbellata, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. e James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186804732
Abronia umbellata, photographed by william_hoyer
fig. f william_hoyer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203074911
Abronia umbellata, photographed by paulexcoff
fig. g paulexcoff, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194831913
Abronia umbellata, photographed by Bill Levine
fig. h Bill Levine, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188184160

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 590 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 590 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Abronia acutalata Standl.
  • Abronia breviflora Standl.
  • Abronia californica Raeusch.
  • Abronia glauca Menzies ex Hook.
  • Abronia rosea Hartweg ex Loudon
  • Abronia rotundifolia C.F.Gaertn.
  • Abronia umbellata subsp. umbellata
  • Abronia umbellata var. acutalata (Standl.) C.L.Hitchc.
  • Abronia umbellata var. breviflora (Standl.) L.A.Galloway
  • Abronia umbellata var. umbellata

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.