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Lechea torreyi
Also called Sandhill Pinweed
Lechea torreyi, commonly called sandhill pinweed, is a species of perennial flowering plant native to the U.S. southeast coastal plain in the states of Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. It could also be present in two other areas: in Virginia and in Belize as a disjunct population.
It occurs in sandy, fire-dependent pine habitats of the southeast including pine flatwoods, longleaf pine sandhill, and pine barrens.
Nodding pinweed · Deckert's pinweed · Drysand pinweed · Largepod pinweed · Lakela's pinweed · Beach pinweed · Thymeleaf pinweed · Hairy pinweed · Leggett's pinweed · Illinois pinweed · Pinweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lechea torreyi 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.
