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woolly plantain

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

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
Sibling taxa
P. arenaria, P. coronopus, P. elongata, P. lanceolata, P. macrocarpa, P. major, P. maritima, P. pusilla, P. subnuda
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