Flora of North America species comparison

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Lechea racemulosa

Illinois pinweed
Habit Herbs, perennial.
Stems

basal produced; flowering erect, 25–40 cm, sparsely sericeous.
Leaves

of flowering stems opposite to subopposite;

blade linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 10–20 × 1–1.5 mm, apex acute, usually indurate, abaxial surface sparsely pilose on midvein and margins, adaxial glabrous.
Pedicels

1 per axil, 1–2 mm.
Flowers

calyx 1.8–2 mm, indurate, shiny, yellow-brown basally in fruit, outer sepals shorter than or equaling inner.
Capsules

ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.5–2 × 1–1.2 mm, ± equaling to slightly longer than calyx.
Seeds

(1–)2(–3).

Lechea racemulosa
Phenology Flowering summer; fruiting late summer–fall.
Habitat Old fields, woodland margins, other dry, sandy, open sites
Elevation 10–400 m (0–1300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; CT; DC; DE; GA; IA; IN; KY; LA; MD; MO; NC; NJ; NY; OH; PA; SC; TN; VA; WV
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Source FNA vol. 6, p. 395.
Parent taxa Cistaceae > Lechea
Sibling taxa
L. cernua, L. deckertii, L. divaricata, L. intermedia, L. lakelae, L. maritima, L. mensalis, L. minor, L. mucronata, L. pulchella, L. san-sabeana, L. sessiliflora, L. stricta, L. tenuifolia, L. torreyi
Name authority Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 77. (1803)
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