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|accepted_name=Lechea maritima
|accepted_authority=Leggett ex Britton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Catal. Fl. New Jersey,
|place=13. 1881
|year=1881
}}
|common_names=Beach or hoary or seaside pinweed
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lechea minor var. maritima
|authority=(Leggett ex Britton) A. Gray
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cistaceae;Lechea;Lechea maritima
|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 maritima]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 391
|treatment_page=page 393
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> perennial.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties=""><b>Stems:</b> basal produced;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem life cycle;stem orientation;stem growth form;stem orientation;stem some measurement;stem pubescence">flowering erect or procumbent to ascending, 15–35 cm, densely sericeous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>of flowering-stems whorled;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;blade length;blade width;apex shape;abaxial surface pubescence;adaxial surface pubescence;adaxial surface pubescence">blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 7–25 × 1.2–4 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface pilose, adaxial glabrous or sparsely pilose.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="pedicel quantity;pedicel some measurement"><b>Pedicels </b>1 per axil, 1–1.5 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="calyx some measurement;outer sepal height or length or size;inner sepal variability"><b>Flowers:</b> calyx 1.6–2.1 mm, outer sepals shorter than to ± equaling inner.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="capsule shape;capsule length;capsule width;capsule height or length or size"><b>Capsules </b>subglobose to broadly ovoid, 1.3–2.1 × 1.5–1.9 mm, shorter than calyx.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="seed atypical quantity;seed quantity"><b>Seeds </b>2–5 (–6).</span><!--

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|distribution=N.B.;P.E.I.;Conn.;Del.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;R.I.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The varieties of Lechea maritima show appreciable overlap in many vegetative features but can be readily distinguished by the characters used here.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowering stems mostly branching distal to middle; outer sepals nearly equaling inner
|[[Lechea maritima var. subcylindrica|Lechea maritima var. subcylindrica]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowering stems mostly branching proximal to middle; outer sepals shorter than inner
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Seeds 3–4(–5), weakly 3-sided or 2-sided and convex; stems erect to procumbent, 1–2.5 mm diam.; sepals usually strongly maroon tinged, sometimes brown.
|[[Lechea maritima var. maritima|Lechea maritima var. maritima]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Seeds 2(–3), 2-sided and flat or convex; stems procumbent to ascending, 2–4 mm diam.; sepals usually brown, sometimes maroon tinged.
|[[Lechea maritima var. virginica|Lechea maritima var. virginica]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Lechea maritima
|authority=Leggett ex Britton
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lechea minor var. maritima
|basionyms=
|family=Cistaceae
|distribution=N.B.;P.E.I.;Conn.;Del.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;R.I.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Catal. Fl. New Jersey,
|publication year=1881
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V6/V6_732.xml
|genus=Lechea
|species=Lechea maritima
|abaxial surface pubescence=pilose
|adaxial surface pubescence=pilose;glabrous
|apex shape=acute
|blade length=7mm;25mm
|blade shape=narrowly elliptic;oblanceolate
|blade width=1.2mm;4mm
|calyx some measurement=1.6mm;2.1mm
|capsule height or length or size=shorter
|capsule length=1.3mm;2.1mm
|capsule shape=subglobose;broadly ovoid
|capsule width=1.5mm;1.9mm
|inner sepal variability=equaling
|leaf arrangement=whorled
|outer sepal height or length or size=shorter
|pedicel quantity=1
|pedicel some measurement=1mm;1.5mm
|seed atypical quantity=5;6
|seed quantity=2;5
|stem growth form=procumbent
|stem life cycle=flowering
|stem orientation=ascending;erect
|stem pubescence=sericeous
|stem some measurement=15cm;35cm
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=herb
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