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sea plantain, seaside plantain

Habit Perennial from a stout, elongate taproot or an erect, woody base, slightly woolly at the crown; scapes 5-25 cm. long, with stiff, aligned hairs.
Leaves

Leaves all basal, linear, fleshy, nearly glabrous, mostly sessile, weakly several-nerved, 5-25 cm. long.

Flowers

Inflorescence a dense, bracteate spike, 2-10 cm. long and under 1 cm. thick;

bracts fleshy, broadly triangular-ovate, 1.5-4 mm. long;

calyx 4-lobed;

corolla tube densely short-hairy, the 4 lobes 1-1.5 mm. long;

stamens 4, exerted;

ovary superior, 2-celled.

Fruits

Capsule

Plantago aristata

Plantago maritima

Flowering time June - August May-July
Habitat Salt marshes, bluffs and cliffs along the coast.
Distribution
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Occurring west of the Cascades crest along the coast in Washington; British Columbia to California.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
Sibling taxa
P. arenaria, P. coronopus, P. elongata, P. lanceolata, P. macrocarpa, P. major, P. maritima, P. patagonica, P. pusilla, P. subnuda
P. arenaria, P. coronopus, P. elongata, P. lanceolata, P. macrocarpa, P. major, P. patagonica, P. pusilla, P. subnuda
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