Lechea racemulosa
Lechea maritima
Illinois pinweed
beach or hoary or seaside pinweed, beach pinweed
basal produced; flowering erect, 25–40 cm, sparsely sericeous.
basal produced; flowering erect or procumbent to ascending, 15–35 cm, densely sericeous.
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 whorled;
blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 7–25 × 1.2–4 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface pilose, adaxial glabrous or sparsely pilose.
1 per axil, 1–2 mm.
1 per axil, 1–1.5 mm.
calyx 1.8–2 mm, indurate, shiny, yellow-brown basally in fruit, outer sepals shorter than or equaling inner.
calyx 1.6–2.1 mm, outer sepals shorter than to ± equaling inner.
ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.5–2 × 1–1.2 mm, ± equaling to slightly longer than calyx.
subglobose to broadly ovoid, 1.3–2.1 × 1.5–1.9 mm, shorter than calyx.
(1–)2(–3).
2–5(–6).
Lechea racemulosa
Lechea maritima
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).
The varieties of Lechea maritima show appreciable overlap in many vegetative features but can be readily distinguished by the characters used here.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Flowering stems mostly branching distal to middle; outer sepals nearly equaling inner | var. subcylindrica |
1. Flowering stems mostly branching proximal to middle; outer sepals shorter than inner | → 2 |
2. Seeds 3–4(–5), weakly 3-sided or 2-sided and convex; stems erect to procumbent, 1–2.5 mm diam.; sepals usually strongly maroon tinged, sometimes brown. | var. maritima |
2. Seeds 2(–3), 2-sided and flat or convex; stems procumbent to ascending, 2–4 mm diam.; sepals usually brown, sometimes maroon tinged. | var. virginica |
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