Lechea torreyi
Lechea intermedia
Piedmont pinweed
large-pod pinweed, round-fruit pinweed
basal produced; flowering erect, 30–50 cm, densely sericeous.
basal produced; flowering erect to decumbent or arcuate-ascending, (3–)5–60 cm, sericeous.
of flowering stems alternate to subopposite;
blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 10–20 × 1–1.5 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface pilose, adaxial glabrous.
of flowering stems alternate or subopposite;
blade elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate to oblanceolate, 10–25 × 1.5–5 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface hairy on midvein and margins, adaxial glabrous.
1 per axil, 0.5–1.5 mm.
1 per axil, 1.5–3 mm.
calyx 1.8–2.1 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner.
calyx 1.9–2.3 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner.
ovoid, 1.5–1.7 × 1.4–1.5 mm, shorter than or ± equaling calyx, with persistent stigma.
broadly ovoid, depressed-globose, or subglobose, 1.8–2 × 1.7–2.1 mm, shorter to ± equaling calyx.
3–6.
4–6, membranous coat gray.
Lechea torreyi
Lechea intermedia
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
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Varieties 4 (4 in the flora).
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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 |
1. Capsules depressed-globose, ± equaling calyx; inner sepals broadly ovate, apex obtuse. | var. intermedia |
1. Capsules subglobose to broadly ovoid, shorter than calyx; inner sepals elliptic-ovate, apex subacute | → 2 |
2. Flowering stems decumbent to arcuate-ascending, 3–12 cm. | var. depauperata |
2. Flowering stems erect, 25–60 cm | → 3 |
3. Leaves of basal stems mostly 4-ranked; blades elliptic-lanceolate. | var. juniperina |
3. Leaves of basal stems mostly 2-ranked; blades lanceolate to oblanceolate. | var. laurentiana |
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