Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Leggett's Pinweed, Leggett´s Pinweed, Leggetts Pinweed
Description
Family Cistaceae
Herbs, subshrubs
, or shrubs
. Leaves usually opposite, rarely alternate, stipulate
or estipulate; leaf blade
simple
. Inflorescence 1-flowered or cymose
, sometimes racemelike or paniclelike. Flowers bisexual
, actinomorphic
. Sepals 5; outer 2 smaller, sometimes absent. Petals (3 or) 5, white, pink, yellow, or orange, sometimes with ± black blotches at base
, crumpled in bud, caducous
. Stamens many; filaments
free
, unequal in length
, inserted
in elongated or discoid
torus; anthers
2-thecate, longitudinally dehiscent
. Gynoecium of 3-5(-10) carpels; ovary superior, 1-loculed or imperfectly 3-5-loculed; placentas parietal
; ovules 2 to many, orthotropous
, rarely anatropous
; style 1; stigmas 3. Capsule leathery or woody, loculicidal. Seeds small, often angled
and coarse
on surface. Embryo often curved
, or circinate
; cotyledons narrow; endosperm powdery or cartilaginous
.
Eight genera and ca.
170 species: N Africa, SW Asia, and Europe, mostly in the Mediterranean region, extending to E Africa (Somalia) and C Asia, also in North and South America; one species in China.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Forb/herb
Flowers: Flower Color: near white, white
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 749 meters (0 to 2,457 feet).[2]
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Lechea Leggettii Pulchella • Lechea pulchella Raf.
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Lechea
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 32 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
L. cernua (Nodding Pinweed) · L. deckertii (Deckert Pinweed) · L. divaricata (Drysand Pinweed) · L. intermedia (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. depauperata (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. intermedia (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. intermedia Legg. ex Britton (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. juniperina (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. juniperina (Bickn.) B.L.Robins. (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. laurentiana (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. laurentiana Hodgdon (Largepod Pinweed) · L. lakelae (Lakela's Pinweed) · L. maritima (Beach Pinweed) · L. maritima Legg. ex B.S.P. var. maritima Legg. ex B.S.P. (Beach Pinweed) · L. maritima Legg. ex B.S.P. var. subcylindrica Hodgdon (Beach Pinweed) · L. maritima Legg. ex B.S.P. var. virginica Hodgdon (Virginia Pinweed) · L. maritima var. maritima (Beach Pinweed) · L. maritima var. subcylindrica (Beach Pinweed) · L. maritima var. virginica (Virginia Pinweed) · L. mensalis (Chisos Mountain Pinweed) · L. minor (Thyme-Leaf Pinweed) · L. mucronata (Hairy Pinweed) · L. pulchella (Leggett's Pinweed) · L. pulchella var. moniliformis (Leggett's Pinweed) · L. pulchella var. pulchella (Leggett's Pinweed) · L. racemulosa (Illinois Pinweed) · L. san-sabeana (San Saba Pinweed) · L. sessiliflora (Pineland Pinweed) · L. stricta (Prairie Pinweed) · L. tenuifolia (Narrowleaf Pinweed) · L. torreyi (Piedmont Pinweed) · L. tripetala (Threepetal Pinweed)
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Further Reading
- Atlas of the rare vascular plants of Ontario / Ottawa: Botany Division, National Museum of Natural Sciences = Division de la botanique, Musée national des sciences naturelles, 1982-1987. url , .
- Bartonia;proceedings of the Philadelphia botanical club. .. 62 2004 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Botanical Club, Academy of Natural Sciences. url p. 123, p. 127.
- Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 392, p. 581, p. 602.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 217.
- Zhang Pengyun & Zhang Yaojia. 1990. Cistaceae. In: Li Hsiwen, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 50(2): 178-179.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 22, 2007:
- Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Museum of Nature Herbarium
- US National Plant Germplasm System, United States National Plant Germplasm System Collection
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
- University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics, Herbarium
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2648113
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-22294
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13741082
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:169318-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 449972
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 22294
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 169318-1
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDCIS04090
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: LEPUP2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 45701
Footnotes
- Qiner Yang & Michael G. Gilbert "Cistaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 70. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mean = 118.850 meters (389.928 feet), Standard Deviation = 142.470 based on 245 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
