Lechea racemulosa |
Lechea pulchella |
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Illinois pinweed |
Leggett's pinweed |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial. | Herbs, perennial. | ||||||||
Stems | basal produced; flowering erect, 25–40 cm, sparsely sericeous. |
basal produced; flowering erect, 25–80 cm, sparsely sericeous, glabrescent. |
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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. |
of flowering stems opposite or subopposite; blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 15–30 × 1.5–3 mm, apex acute, indurate, abaxial surface hairy on midvein and, sometimes, margins, adaxial glabrous. |
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Pedicels | 1 per axil, 1–2 mm. |
1 per axil, 1–2.3 mm. |
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Flowers | calyx 1.8–2 mm, indurate, shiny, yellow-brown basally in fruit, outer sepals shorter than or equaling inner. |
calyx 1.4–2 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner. |
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Capsules | ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.5–2 × 1–1.2 mm, ± equaling to slightly longer than calyx. |
subglobose, 1.5–2.2 × 1.3–1.6 mm, longer than calyx. |
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Seeds | (1–)2(–3). |
2 or 3(4). |
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Lechea racemulosa |
Lechea pulchella |
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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 |
AL; CT; DC; DE; GA; IA; IN; KY; LA; MD; MO; NC; NJ; NY; OH; PA; SC; TN; VA; WV
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AL; CT; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; LA; MA; MD; MI; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; ON
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). Intergradation among the varieties of Lechea pulchella in areas of overlap is common (B. A. Sorrie and A. S. Weakley 2007b). Some authors (K. Barringer 2004; R. L. Wilbur 1966) have not recognized infraspecific taxa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 395. | FNA vol. 6, p. 394. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Cistaceae > Lechea | Cistaceae > Lechea | ||||||||
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Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 77. (1803) | Rafinesque: New Fl. 1: 91. (1836) | ||||||||
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