Show Lower Taxa
Lechea torreyi
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 251. 1894.
Common names: 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.
Distribution
Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss., N.C., S.C., Central America (Belize)
Discussion
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
Selected References
None.
Key
| 1 | Panicles loosely flowered; inner sepals brown in fruit, sometimes with some rust coloration; seeds 4–6 1 6a. Lechea torreyi var. torreyi | > 1 |
| 1 | Panicles congested; inner sepals rust colored in fruit; seeds 3 | Lechea torreyi var. congesta |
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pilose +
glabrous +
acute +
overwintering +
ascending +
1-veined +
3;45 +
absent +
equaling +
3-valved +
exserted +
ovoid +
separating +
membranous +
Piedmont pinweed +
chasmogamous +
capsular +
loculicidal +
revolute +
ovate;obovate +
indurate +
parietal +
superior +
orthotropous +
absent +
caducous +
distinct +
usually shorter +
absent +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
1894 +
3;6 +
persistent +
falling +
5;15 +
dimorphic +
flowering +
erect +
sericeous +
dark red +
persistent +
fimbriate-plumose +
caducous +
absent +
Lechea torreyi +
Lechea +
species +
perennial +