Lechea tenuifolia Michx.

Stems 1–3 dm, with a few erect or ascending hairs; lvs of basal shoots linear, crowded, 3–6 mm; cauline lvs linear or filiform, to 2 cm, usually under 1(–1.5) mm wide and at least 10 times as long as wide, sparsely hairy only beneath, soon deciduous; panicle occupying half the plant or more, its numerous branches often racemiform and secund; inner sep concave, with a conspicuous midvein but not keeled, hairy over mostof or all the surface; outer sep linear, usually distinctly exceeding the inner; fr broadly ovoid to subglobose, usually slightly shorter than and enclosed by the cal. Dry soil, upland woods, and barrens; s. Me. to S.C., chiefly near the coast; Minn. to Ind., s. and sw. to Miss. and Tex. A more robust and more hairy form, chiefly to the w. and sw. of our range, but also in nw. Ill., has been segregated as var. occidentalis Hodgdon.