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|accepted_name=Lechea tenuifolia
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=1: 77. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=Narrowleaf pinweed
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lechea tenuifolia var. occidentalis
|authority=Hodgdon
}}
|hierarchy=Cistaceae;Lechea;Lechea tenuifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cistaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lechea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lechea tenuifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 390
|treatment_page=page 396
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> biennial or perennial. <b>Stems</b>: basal produced; flowering erect, 12–40 cm, sparsely sericeous. <b>Leaves</b> of flowering stems opposite or whorled; blade linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 7–20 × 0.5–1.5 mm, apex rounded, abaxial surface sparsely pilose on midvein and margins, adaxial glabrous. <b>Pedicels</b> 1 per axil, 0.5–1.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 1.6–1.9 mm, outer sepals equaling or longer than inner. <b>Capsules</b> secund or not, broadly ovoid, 1.4–1.7 × 1.3–1.5 mm, shorter than or ± equaling calyx. <b>Seeds</b> 2–3(–5).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall; fruiting fall.
|habitat=Dry, sandy or gravelly soil in openings or along margins of oak woodlands and oak-pine forests
|elevation=100–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Lechea tenuifolia
|author=
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lechea tenuifolia var. occidentalis
|basionyms=
|family=Cistaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall; fruiting fall.
|habitat=Dry, sandy or gravelly soil in openings or along margins of oak woodlands and oak-pine forests
|elevation=100–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1803
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Lechea
|species=Lechea tenuifolia
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