Lechea torreyi
Lechea sessiliflora
Piedmont pinweed
pineland pinweed
basal produced; flowering erect, 30–50 cm, densely sericeous.
basal produced; flowering erect, 15–70 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 linear to narrowly elliptic, 4–15 × 0.3–1.5 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface pilose on midvein and margins, adaxial glabrous.
1 per axil, 0.5–1.5 mm.
1 per axil, 1–1.8 mm.
calyx 1.8–2.1 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner.
calyx 0.8–1.1 mm, outer sepals usually ± equaling or longer than, occasionally shorter than, inner.
ovoid, 1.5–1.7 × 1.4–1.5 mm, shorter than or ± equaling calyx, with persistent stigma.
ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.6–1.9 × 0.9–1.1 mm, longer than calyx, with persistent stigma.
3–6.
1(–2).
Lechea torreyi
Lechea sessiliflora
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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 |
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