Lechea stricta
Lechea mensalis
prairie pinweed
Chisos Mountain pinweed, mountain pinweed
basal produced; flowering erect, 25–45 cm, densely sericeous.
basal produced; flowering erect, 15–25 cm, sericeous.
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, 8–15 × 0.7–1.2 mm, apex acute to rounded, abaxial surface sparsely pilose on midvein and margins, adaxial glabrous.
1 per axil, 1.6–2 mm.
1 per axil, 1.5–2 mm.
calyx 1.6–1.8 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner.
calyx 1.9–2 mm, outer sepals longer than inner.
subglobose to broadly ovoid, (1.8–)2–2.5 × 2–2.5 mm, ± equaling calyx.
ovoid, 1.6–1.8 × 1.2–1.3 mm, ± equaling calyx.
3–4.
1(2).
Lechea stricta
Lechea mensalis
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 mensalis is known from open woodlands dominated by species of oak and juniper at only two locations in the United States: the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico and adjacent Texas and the Chisos Mountains of west Texas; it also occurs in adjacent Coahuila, Mexico.
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