Lechea racemulosa

Michaux

Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 77. 1803.

Common names: Illinois pinweed
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 395. Mentioned on page 390.

Herbs, perennial. Stems: basal produced; flowering erect, 25–40 cm, sparsely sericeous. Leaves of flowering stems opposite to subopposite; blade linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 10–20 × 1–1.5 mm, apex acute, usually indurate, abaxial surface sparsely pilose on midvein and margins, adaxial glabrous. Pedicels 1 per axil, 1–2 mm. Flowers: calyx 1.8–2 mm, indurate, shiny, yellow-brown basally in fruit, outer sepals shorter than or equaling inner. Capsules ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.5–2 × 1–1.2 mm, ± equaling to slightly longer than calyx. Seeds (1–)2(–3).


Phenology: Flowering summer; fruiting late summer–fall.
Habitat: Old fields, woodland margins, other dry, sandy, open sites
Elevation: 10–400 m

Distribution

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Ala., Conn., Del., D.C., Ga., Ind., Iowa, Ky., La., Md., Mo., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., S.C., Tenn., Va., W.Va.

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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David E. Lemke +
Michaux +
Illinois pinweed +
Ala. +, Conn. +, Del. +, D.C. +, Ga. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Ky. +, La. +, Md. +, Mo. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.C. +, Ohio +, Pa. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Va. +  and W.Va. +
10–400 m +
Old fields, woodland margins, other dry, sandy, open sites +
Flowering summer +  and fruiting late summer–fall. +
Fl. Bor.-Amer. +
Lechidium +
Lechea racemulosa +
species +