Flora of North America species comparison

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Lechea stricta

prairie pinweed
Habit Herbs, perennial.
Stems

basal produced; flowering erect, 25–45 cm, densely sericeous.
Leaves

of flowering stems alternate or subopposite;

blade narrowly oblanceolate, 13–20 × 1.5–3 mm, apex acute, often mucronate, abaxial surface pilose, adaxial glabrous.
Pedicels

1 per axil, 1.6–2 mm.
Flowers

calyx 1.6–1.8 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner.
Capsules

subglobose to broadly ovoid, (1.8–)2–2.5 × 2–2.5 mm, ± equaling calyx.
Seeds

3–4.

Lechea stricta
Phenology Flowering summer–fall; fruiting fall.
Habitat Sandy, open fields, grasslands, lakeshores, woodland margins
Elevation 100–800 m (300–2600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
IA; IL; MI; MN; ND; NE; WI; ON
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Discussion

Some individuals of Lechea stricta can be difficult to determine with certainty; the extremes of variation of L. stricta often grade into that of L. intermedia and L. pulchella.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 396.
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. racemulosa, L. san-sabeana, L. sessiliflora, L. tenuifolia, L. torreyi
Name authority Leggett ex Britton: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 251. (1894)
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