Large-pod pinweed Large-pod pinweed

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>.

Varieties 4 (4 in the flora): North America.

Lechea intermedia can be easily recognized by the membranous layer surrounding the seeds, a feature shared only with L. divaricata.

Lower Taxa

• Lechea intermedia var. depauperata Hodgdon
• Lechea intermedia var. intermedia
• Lechea intermedia var. juniperina (E. P. Bicknell) B. L. Robinson
• Lechea intermedia var. laurentiana Hodgdon