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16. Lechea torreyi Leggett ex Britton, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club. 21: 251. 1894.

Piedmont pinweed Piedmont pinweed

Herbs, perennial. Stems: basal produced; flowering erect, 30–50 cm, densely sericeous. Leaves of flowering stems alternate to subopposite; blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 10–20 × 1–1.5 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface pilose, adaxial glabrous. Pedicels 1 per axil, 0.5–1.5 mm. Flowers: calyx 1.8–2.1 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner. Capsules ovoid, 1.5–1.7 × 1.4–1.5 mm, shorter than or ± equaling calyx, with persistent stigma. Seeds 3–6.

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora): se United States, Central America (Belize).


1 (1) Panicles loosely flowered; inner sepals brown in fruit, sometimes with some rust coloration; seeds 4–6 1 6a. Lechea torreyi var. torreyi   (1)
+ Panicles congested; inner sepals rust colored in fruit; seeds 3 1 6b. Lechea torreyi var. congesta    

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