Flora of North America species comparison

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Lechea torreyi

Piedmont pinweed
Habit Herbs, perennial.
Stems

basal produced; flowering erect, 30–50 cm, densely sericeous.
Leaves

of flowering stems alternate to subopposite;

blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 10–20 × 1–1.5 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface pilose, adaxial glabrous.
Pedicels

1 per axil, 0.5–1.5 mm.
Flowers

calyx 1.8–2.1 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner.
Capsules

ovoid, 1.5–1.7 × 1.4–1.5 mm, shorter than or ± equaling calyx, with persistent stigma.
Seeds

3–6.

Lechea torreyi
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC; Central America (Belize)
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Panicles loosely flowered; inner sepals brown in fruit, sometimes with some rust coloration; seeds 4–6 1 6a. Lechea torreyi var. torreyi
→ 1
1. Panicles congested; inner sepals rust colored in fruit; seeds 3
var. congesta
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 397.
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. stricta, L. tenuifolia
Subordinate taxa
L. torreyi var. congesta
Name authority Leggett ex Britton: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 251. (1894)
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