Lechea stricta
Lechea lakelae
prairie pinweed
Lakela's pinweed
basal produced; flowering erect, 25–45 cm, densely sericeous.
basal not produced; flowering erect, (20–)30–40 cm, glabrous.
of flowering stems alternate or subopposite;
blade narrowly oblanceolate, 13–20 × 1.5–3 mm, apex acute, often mucronate, abaxial surface pilose, 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, 1.6–2 mm.
1 per axil, 0.7–2 mm.
calyx 1.6–1.8 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner.
calyx 1.5–1.9 mm, slightly indurate, discolored basally, outer sepals shorter than inner.
subglobose to broadly ovoid, (1.8–)2–2.5 × 2–2.5 mm, ± equaling calyx.
ovoid to globose, 1.2–1.6 × 1–1.4 mm, ± equaling calyx.
3–4.
2–3.
Lechea stricta
Lechea lakelae
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.
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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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