Plantago patagonica |
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woolly plantain |
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Habit | Annual, 5-30 cm. tall, the herbage white-woolly. |
Leaves | Leaves all basal, 3-13 cm. long and 1-7 mm. wide, oblanceolate to linear, tapering to a petiole and to an acute tip. |
Flowers | Inflorescence a dense, cylindric, bracteate, woolly spike, 1.5-10 cm. long and well under1 cm. wide; bracts firm, linear, 5 mm. long, usually not exerted; calyx 4-lobed; corolla lobes 4, spreading, 1.5-2 mm. long; stamens 4; ovary superior, 2-celled. |
Fruits | Capsule |
Plantago patagonica |
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Flowering time | April-June |
Habitat | Dry, open places at low to middle elevations. |
Distribution | Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest and in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast; also in South America.
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Origin | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern |
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