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Stems

simple or branched, 10–70 cm.

Leaves

blade linear to narrowly lanceolate or narrowly oblanceolate, 12–55 × 2–10 mm, glandular.

Inflorescences

2–25 cm, densely glandular-hairy;

bracts linear, 15–25 × 0.9–1.2 mm.

Pedicels

ascending, 0.5–2.5 mm in flower, to 4 mm in fruit.

Flowers

calyx lobes accrescent, abaxial 10–15 × 1–2 mm in fruit, adaxial 15–20 × 1–2.5 mm in fruit;

corolla sparsely glandular-pubescent externally, tube 6–8 mm, internally glandular-pubescent abaxially, hairs yellow, palate densely white-lanate, throat 3.5–4.5 mm diam., abaxial lip: middle lobe narrower than laterals;

stamens included;

staminode 0.2 mm;

style persistent, densely glandular-pubescent.

Capsules

obliquely ovoid or oblong-ovoid, 4–7 mm wide, glandular-pubescent.

Seeds

0.9–1.2 mm, papillate, abaxial face keeled, adaxial with sinuate marginal ridges, wings narrow.

2n

= 16 (Portugal).

Misopates orontium subsp. orontium

Phenology Flowering May–Oct.
Habitat Disturbed sites, including roadsides, rail yards, construction sites, abandoned areas, gravel bars.
Elevation 0–1000 m. (0–3300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; CA; CT; FL; ID; IL; KY; ME; MI; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; UT; VA; WA; BC; ON; QC; Europe; Asia; n Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador), s Africa (Republic of South Africa), Pacific Islands (Hawaii, New Zealand), Australia]
Discussion

Subspecies orontium is widely, sporadically naturalized, mostly in temperate regions of the world.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 17, p. 36.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Misopates > Misopates orontium
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