Abronia villosaS.Watson

desert sand verbena

WFO wfo-0000511604 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Abronia villosa, photographed by Miguel Grageda
fig. a Miguel Grageda, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-26 / obs. 183885661
Abronia villosa, photographed by Mike Ostrowski
fig. b Mike Ostrowski, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186410458
Abronia villosa, photographed by velodrome
fig. c velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165506820
Abronia villosa, photographed by Diana
fig. d Diana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179340811
Abronia villosa, photographed by velodrome
fig. e velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160984776
Abronia villosa, photographed by velodrome
fig. f velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160802055
Abronia villosa, photographed by Jim Riley
fig. g Jim Riley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 119273975

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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 = 6,160 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 6,160 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 5 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 aurita Abrams
  • Abronia pinetorum Abrams
  • Abronia umbellata f. villosa (S.Watson) Voss
  • Abronia villosa var. pinetorum (Abrams) Jeps.
  • Abronia villosa var. villosa

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.