Lechea intermedia
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 252. 1894.
Common names: Large-pod pinweed
Endemic
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Herbs, perennial. Stems: basal produced; flowering erect to decumbent or arcuate-ascending, (3–)5–60 cm, sericeous. Leaves 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. Pedicels 1 per axil, 1.5–3 mm. Flowers: calyx 1.9–2.3 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner. Capsules broadly ovoid, depressed-globose, or subglobose, 1.8–2 × 1.7–2.1 mm, shorter to ± equaling calyx. Seeds 4–6, membranous coat gray.
Distribution
North America.
Discussion
Varieties 4 (4 in the flora).
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
Key
1 | Capsules depressed-globose, ± equaling calyx; inner sepals broadly ovate, apex obtuse. | Lechea intermedia 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. | Lechea intermedia var. depauperata |
2 | Flowering stems erect, 25–60 cm | > 3 |
3 | Leaves of basal stems mostly 4-ranked; blades elliptic-lanceolate. | Lechea intermedia var. juniperina |
3 | Leaves of basal stems mostly 2-ranked; blades lanceolate to oblanceolate. | Lechea intermedia var. laurentiana |