Lechea stricta |
Lechea racemulosa |
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prairie pinweed |
Illinois pinweed |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial. | Herbs, perennial. |
Stems | basal produced; flowering erect, 25–45 cm, densely sericeous. |
basal produced; flowering erect, 25–40 cm, sparsely 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. |
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. |
Pedicels | 1 per axil, 1.6–2 mm. |
1 per axil, 1–2 mm. |
Flowers | calyx 1.6–1.8 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner. |
calyx 1.8–2 mm, indurate, shiny, yellow-brown basally in fruit, outer sepals shorter than or equaling inner. |
Capsules | subglobose to broadly ovoid, (1.8–)2–2.5 × 2–2.5 mm, ± equaling calyx. |
ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.5–2 × 1–1.2 mm, ± equaling to slightly longer than calyx. |
Seeds | 3–4. |
(1–)2(–3). |
Lechea stricta |
Lechea racemulosa |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall; fruiting fall. | Flowering summer; fruiting late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Sandy, open fields, grasslands, lakeshores, woodland margins | Old fields, woodland margins, other dry, sandy, open sites |
Elevation | 100–800 m (300–2600 ft) | 10–400 m (0–1300 ft) |
Distribution |
IA; IL; MI; MN; ND; NE; WI; ON
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AL; CT; DC; DE; GA; IA; IN; KY; LA; MD; MO; NC; NJ; NY; OH; PA; SC; TN; VA; WV
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 396. | FNA vol. 6, p. 395. |
Parent taxa | Cistaceae > Lechea | Cistaceae > Lechea |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Leggett ex Britton: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 251. (1894) | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 77. (1803) |
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