Abronia latifoliaEschsch.

Yellow Sand Verbena

WFO wfo-0000511550 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Abronia latifolia, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. a Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203451647
Abronia latifolia, photographed by Loopy30
fig. b Loopy30, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205014335
Abronia latifolia, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. c Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199198798
Abronia latifolia, photographed by Alexander Wentworth
fig. d Alexander Wentworth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203030440
Abronia latifolia, photographed by John A Haskins
fig. e John A Haskins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203366398
Abronia latifolia, photographed by John A Haskins
fig. f John A Haskins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203368047
Abronia latifolia, photographed by James Muehlner
fig. g James Muehlner, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 196921537
Abronia latifolia, photographed by Leah Gardner
fig. h Leah Gardner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194886336

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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 = 1,165 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 1,165 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 2 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 arenaria Menzies ex Hook.
  • Tricratus arenarius (Menzies ex Hook.) Spreng.

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.