Lechea maritimaLegg. ex Britton

beach pinweed

WFO wfo-0001295604 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lechea maritima, photographed by harrier
fig. a harrier, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 203061224
Lechea maritima, photographed by Zac Peterson
fig. b Zac Peterson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172934086
Lechea maritima, photographed by Bonnie Semmling
fig. c Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141555486
Lechea maritima, photographed by John Fones
fig. d John Fones, CC0 1.0 / obs. 5591900
Lechea maritima, photographed by harrier
fig. e harrier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188833869
Lechea maritima, photographed by Daniel Atha
fig. f Daniel Atha, CC0 1.0 / obs. 126247371
Lechea maritima, photographed by crlevy
fig. g crlevy, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 109806401
Lechea maritima, photographed by Daniel Atha
fig. h Daniel Atha, CC0 1.0 / obs. 109039139

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Lechea maritima is native: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Prince Edward I., Rhode I., Vermont, Virginia ConnecticutMaineMarylandMassachusettsNew BrunswickNew HampshireNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaPrince Edward I.VermontVirginia DelawareRhode I.
Native distribution of Lechea maritima, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Connecticut CNT NORTHERN AMERICA
Delaware DEL
Maine MAI
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
New Brunswick NBR
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Prince Edward I. PEI
Rhode I. RHO
Vermont VER
Virginia VRG

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Lechea maritima var. interior B.L.Rob.
  • Lechea maritima var. typica Hodgdon
  • Lechea minor var. maritima (Legg. ex Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.) A.Gray
  • Lechea thymifolia Pursh

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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