OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Malvales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lechea mucronata   FAMILY Cistaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lechea mucronata   FAMILY Cistaceae

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

Lechea mucronata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)

Lechea mucronata

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

Lechea mucronata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Lechea mucronata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 129-03-001:

Lechea villosa   FAMILY Cistaceae

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

Lechea villosa

 

COMMON NAME:
Hairy Pinweed


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image of Lechea mucronata, Hairy Pinweed

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_levi_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lechea mucronata   FAMILY Cistaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lechea mucronata   FAMILY Cistaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Lechea mucronata

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Lechea mucronata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 129-03-001:
Lechea villosa   FAMILY Cistaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4697

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Open dry habitats, longleaf pine sandhills, dunes, dry hammocks, woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (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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