San Saba pinweed San Saba pinweed

Linum san-sabeanum Buckley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 450. 1862; Lechidium drummondii Spach 1837, not Lechea drummondii Spach 1837

Herbs, perennial. Stems: basal produced; flowering erect, 15–35 cm, densely to sparsely sericeous. Leaves of flowering stems alternate to subopposite; blade linear, 6–18 × 0.6–1.3 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface appressed-pilose mostly on midvein and margins, adaxial glabrous. Pedicels 1 per axil, 3–5 mm. Flowers: calyx 1.8–2.2 mm, outer sepals longer than inner. Capsules <secund>, depressed-globose, (1.2–)1.8–2.2 × 2.2–2.4 mm, ± equaling to longer than calyx. Seeds (4–)6.

Flowering spring; fruiting summer–fall. Dry, sandy or gravelly, open sites, woodland margins; 10–600 m; Tex.

Lechea san-sabeana is known from a variety of sandy habitats in the eastern half of Texas.