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Plantago sparsiflora

Plantago patagonica

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 sparsiflora

Plantago patagonica
Flowering time April-June
Habitat Dry, open places at low to middle elevations.
Distribution
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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. patagonica, P. pusilla, P. subnuda
P. arenaria, P. coronopus, P. elongata, P. lanceolata, P. macrocarpa, P. major, P. maritima, P. pusilla, P. subnuda
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