Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago virginica |
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English plantain |
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Habit | Fibrous-rooted perennial from a short, stout, woody base, tan-woolly at the crown, the several scapes 1.5-6 dm. tall, grooved and ridged. | |
Leaves | Leaves all basal, woolly to glabrous, 3- to several-nerved, lance-elliptic, acute, 10-40 cm. long and 1-4 cm. wide. |
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Flowers | Inflorescence a dense, bracteate, cylindric spike, 1.5-8 cm. long and 1 cm. wide; bracts thin, ovate, acuminate; the 4 sepals with strong mid-veins, the outer two united, with separate mid-veins; corolla lobes 4, 2-2.5 mm. long, spreading or reflexed; stamens 4, exerted; ovary superior, 2-celled. |
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Fruits | Capsule 3-4 mm. long |
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Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago virginica |
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Flowering time | April-August | |
Habitat | Roadsides, fields, and other disturbed, open areas. | |
Distribution | Occuring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east across North America to the Atlantic Coast; cosmopolitan.
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Origin | Introduced from Europe | |
Conservation status | Not of concern | |
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