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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Lechea minor
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 90. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Thymeleaved pinweed
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lechea thymifolia
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cistaceae;Lechea;Lechea minor
|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 minor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 390
|treatment_page=page 394
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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, 20–50 cm, sparsely sericeous. <b>Leaves</b> of flowering stems whorled or opposite; blade elliptic to lanceolate, 8–15 × 4–7 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface pilose on midvein and margins, adaxial sparsely pilose or glabrous. <b>Pedicels</b> 1 per axil, 0.5–2 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 1.6–2 mm, outer sepals longer than inner. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid to ellipsoid-ovoid, 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm, ± equaling calyx. <b>Seeds</b> 2–3.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer; fruiting late summer–fall.
|habitat=Dry sandy or gravelly soil of pine-oak woodlands, savannas, sandhills, disturbed sites
|elevation=10–600 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Lechea minor</i> may have been extirpated from the Canadian portion of its range.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Lechea minor
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lechea thymifolia
|basionyms=
|family=Cistaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer; fruiting late summer–fall.
|habitat=Dry sandy or gravelly soil of pine-oak woodlands, savannas, sandhills, disturbed sites
|elevation=10–600 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_737.xml
|genus=Lechea
|species=Lechea minor
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