Lechea racemulosa Michaux. Common name: Appalachian Pinweed. Phenology: Jun-Aug; Jul-Oct. Habitat: Dry pine woodlands, other woodlands, forest edges, old fields. Distribution: Se. NY west to s. OH and s. IL, south to se. VA, NC, c. GA, and AL, with a few disjunct occurrences west to MO; the range is centered on the Appalachian Mountains.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = C, F, FNA6, G, K4, NS, NY, Pa, POWO, RAB, S, S13, Tat, Tn, Va, W, WV, Hodgdon (1938), Wilbur & Daoud (1961). Basionym: Lechea racemulosa Michx. 1803
Links to other floras: = Lechea racemulosa - FNA6
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Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect perennial of dry pine woodlands, other woodlands, forest edges and old fields.
Stems: Stems loosely to compactly branched in upper half of plant, with short pressed-in hairs; older stems prostrate and forming a basal rosette.
Leaves: Stem leaves opposite to sub-opposite, short-petiolate to sessile, linear-lance-shaped, 1/4-3/4 in. long, smooth except for short hairs on margins and midrib beneath. Leaves on basal shoots often whorled and a little wider and shorter.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in a loose panicle with ascending branches occupying the upper 1/2 of the plant, reddish, tiny, consisting of 3 petals that are mostly concealed by the sepals and rarely spreading.
Fruits: Fruit a slender ellipsoid to narrowly pear-shaped capsule partially enclosed by the persistent calyx.
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Height: 4-32 in.
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description: Erect perennial of dry pine woodlands, other woodlands, forest edges and old fields.
stems: Stems loosely to compactly branched in upper half of plant, with short pressed-in hairs; older stems prostrate and forming a basal rosette.
leaves: Stem leaves opposite to sub-opposite, short-petiolate to sessile, linear-lance-shaped, 1/4-3/4 in. long, smooth except for short hairs on margins and midrib beneath. Leaves on basal shoots often whorled and a little wider and shorter.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in a loose panicle with ascending branches occupying the upper 1/2 of the plant, reddish, tiny, consisting of 3 petals that are mostly concealed by the sepals and rarely spreading.
fruits: Fruit a slender ellipsoid to narrowly pear-shaped capsule partially enclosed by the persistent calyx.
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