Lechea racemulosa
Lechea lakelae
Illinois pinweed
Lakela's pinweed
basal produced; flowering erect, 25–40 cm, sparsely sericeous.
basal not produced; flowering erect, (20–)30–40 cm, glabrous.
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.
of flowering stems alternate;
blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 7–15 × 0.5–1.5 mm, apex rounded to acute, surfaces glabrous.
1 per axil, 1–2 mm.
1 per axil, 0.7–2 mm.
calyx 1.8–2 mm, indurate, shiny, yellow-brown basally in fruit, outer sepals shorter than or equaling inner.
calyx 1.5–1.9 mm, slightly indurate, discolored basally, outer sepals shorter than inner.
ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.5–2 × 1–1.2 mm, ± equaling to slightly longer than calyx.
ovoid to globose, 1.2–1.6 × 1–1.4 mm, ± equaling calyx.
(1–)2(–3).
2–3.
Lechea racemulosa
Lechea lakelae
Of conservation concern.
Lechea lakelae is known only from coastal scrub woodlands in Collier County; it has not been collected since 1987 and may have been extirpated.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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