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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lechea tenuifolia   FAMILY Cistaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lechea tenuifolia   FAMILY Cistaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Lechea tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Lechea tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Key to the pinweeds (Lechea, Cistaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013)

Lechea tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 129-03-003:

Lechea tenuifolia   FAMILY Cistaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Lechea tenuifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Narrowleaf Pinweed


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image of Lechea tenuifolia, Narrowleaf Pinweed

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_lete_001_lvd

        

image of Lechea tenuifolia, Narrowleaf Pinweed

JK Marlow    jkm181119_5995

November    McCormick County    SC

Parks Mill

Stems 5-30cm tall. Branches fairly short-spreading to spreading-ascending, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lechea tenuifolia, Narrowleaf Pinweed

JK Marlow    jkm181119_5996

November    McCormick County    SC

Parks Mill

image of Lechea tenuifolia, Narrowleaf Pinweed

JK Marlow    jkm181119_5997

November    McCormick County    SC

Parks Mill

A perennial with a tap root, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lechea tenuifolia   FAMILY Cistaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lechea tenuifolia   FAMILY Cistaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lechea tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Lechea tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Key to the pinweeds (Lechea, Cistaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013)
Lechea tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 129-03-003:
Lechea tenuifolia   FAMILY Cistaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lechea tenuifolia

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4270

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Dry oak-pine forests and openings, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain & Carolina Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Basal shoots evergreen
Simple
Basal rosette & lower opposite, subopposite or whorled, upper usually alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Reddish or maroon
5 sepals
3 petals
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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