Lechea tenuifolia Michaux. Common name: Narrowleaf Pinweed. Phenology: Jun-Aug; Aug-Oct. Habitat: Dry oak-pine forests and openings. Distribution: S. ME south to SC (mostly inner Coastal Plain and Piedmont), and from s. IN n. IL, s. MN, and NE south to e. LA and c. TX.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, FNA6, GrPl, K4, NcTx, NE, NS, NY, POWO, RAB, S, S13, Tn, Tx, Va, W, WV, Spaulding (2013a), Wilbur & Daoud (1961); > Lechea tenuifolia Michx. var. occidentalis Hodgdon — F, Il, Hodgdon (1938); > Lechea tenuifolia Michx. var. tenuifolia — C, F, G, Il; > Lechea tenuifolia Michx. var. typica — Hodgdon (1938). Basionym: Lechea tenuifolia Michx. 1803
Links to other floras: = Lechea tenuifolia - FNA6
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Mat-forming, bushy perennial of dry oak-pine forests, dry roadsides and other openings.
Stems: Stems with short, spreading branches and covered with fine, ascending hairs.
Leaves: Stem leaves alternate, 1/4-3/4 in. long, needle-thin and more than 10 times as long as wide, sparsely hairy beneath; on basal shoots, leaves linear, to 3 in. long and crowded on the stem.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers on numerous spreading axillary branches in the upper 1/2 of the plant, brown or reddish, 1/16 in. long or less, with 3 tiny petals that are shorter than the 5 sepals.
Fruits: Fruit an oval capsule, completely enclosed by the hairy sepals.
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Height: 4-15 in.
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description: Mat-forming, bushy perennial of dry oak-pine forests, dry roadsides and other openings.
stems: Stems with short, spreading branches and covered with fine, ascending hairs.
leaves: Stem leaves alternate, 1/4-3/4 in. long, needle-thin and more than 10 times as long as wide, sparsely hairy beneath; on basal shoots, leaves linear, to 3 in. long and crowded on the stem.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers on numerous spreading axillary branches in the upper 1/2 of the plant, brown or reddish, 1/16 in. long or less, with 3 tiny petals that are shorter than the 5 sepals.
fruits: Fruit an oval capsule, completely enclosed by the hairy sepals.
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