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prairie pinweed

Illinois pinweed

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

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
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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.)

Source FNA vol. 6, p. 396. FNA vol. 6, p. 395.
Parent taxa Cistaceae > Lechea 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
L. cernua, L. deckertii, L. divaricata, L. intermedia, L. lakelae, L. maritima, L. mensalis, L. minor, L. mucronata, L. pulchella, L. san-sabeana, L. sessiliflora, L. stricta, L. tenuifolia, L. torreyi
Name authority Leggett ex Britton: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 251. (1894) Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 77. (1803)
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