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|accepted_name=Lechea stricta
|accepted_authority=Leggett ex Britton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=21: 251. 1894
|year=1894
}}
|common_names=Prairie pinweed
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cistaceae;Lechea;Lechea stricta
|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 stricta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 391
|treatment_page=page 396
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial. <b>Stems</b>: basal produced; flowering erect, 25–45 cm, densely sericeous. <b>Leaves</b> of flowering stems alternate or subopposite; blade narrowly oblanceolate, 13–20 × 1.5–3 mm, apex acute, often mucronate, abaxial surface pilose, adaxial glabrous. <b>Pedicels</b> 1 per axil, 1.6–2 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 1.6–1.8 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner. <b>Capsules</b> subglobose to broadly ovoid, (1.8–)2–2.5 × 2–2.5 mm, ± equaling calyx. <b>Seeds</b> 3–4.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall; fruiting fall.
|habitat=Sandy, open fields, grasslands, lakeshores, woodland margins
|elevation=100–800 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ill.;Iowa;Mich.;Minn.;Nebr.;N.Dak.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>Some individuals of <i>Lechea stricta</i> can be difficult to determine with certainty; the extremes of variation of <i>L. stricta</i> often grade into that of <i>L. intermedia</i> and <i>L. pulchella</i>.</p>
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name=Lechea stricta
|authority=Leggett ex Britton
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cistaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall; fruiting fall.
|habitat=Sandy, open fields, grasslands, lakeshores, woodland margins
|elevation=100–800 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ill.;Iowa;Mich.;Minn.;Nebr.;N.Dak.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1894
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Lechea
|species=Lechea stricta
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