Lechea intermedia

Leggett ex Britton

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 252. 1894.

Common names: Large-pod pinweed
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 391. Mentioned on page 390, 396.

Herbs, perennial. Stems: basal produced; flowering erect to decumbent or arcuate-ascending, (3–)5–60 cm, sericeous. Leaves of flowering stems alternate or subopposite; blade elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate to oblanceolate, 10–25 × 1.5–5 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface hairy on midvein and margins, adaxial glabrous. Pedicels 1 per axil, 1.5–3 mm. Flowers: calyx 1.9–2.3 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner. Capsules broadly ovoid, depressed-globose, or subglobose, 1.8–2 × 1.7–2.1 mm, shorter to ± equaling calyx. Seeds 4–6, membranous coat gray.

Distribution

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Alta., Man., N.B., N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que., Sask., Conn., Ill., Iowa, Maine, Mass., Minn., Mont., N.Dak., N.H., N.J., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., R.I., S.Dak., Va., Wis., Wyo.

Discussion

Varieties 4 (4 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Capsules depressed-globose, ± equaling calyx; inner sepals broadly ovate, apex obtuse. Lechea intermedia var. intermedia
1 Capsules subglobose to broadly ovoid, shorter than calyx; inner sepals elliptic-ovate, apex subacute > 2
2 Flowering stems decumbent to arcuate-ascending, 3–12 cm. Lechea intermedia var. depauperata
2 Flowering stems erect, 25–60 cm > 3
3 Leaves of basal stems mostly 4-ranked; blades elliptic-lanceolate. Lechea intermedia var. juniperina
3 Leaves of basal stems mostly 2-ranked; blades lanceolate to oblanceolate. Lechea intermedia var. laurentiana
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