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Lechea maritima
Also called Seaside Pinweed, Hoary Pinweed
Lechea maritima, also known as beach pinweed, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the Cistaceae family found along coastal sandy dunes of the East Coast of the United States and into Atlantic Canada.
Beach pinweed is found almost exclusively along the Atlantic coast, but extends inward in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi). It is found from New Brunswick to North Carolina. In the early 1910s, it was described as one of the most common plants on the island of Nantucket where it grew in "pure" sands.
Nodding pinweed · Deckert's pinweed · Drysand pinweed · Largepod pinweed · Lakela's pinweed · Thymeleaf pinweed · Hairy pinweed · Leggett's pinweed · Illinois pinweed · Piedmont pinweed · Pinweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lechea maritima by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
