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saltmeadow plantain

Habit Annuals; roots taproots, slender.
Stems

0–20 mm.

Leaves

45–140 × 1.5–4 mm;

blade linear, margins entire, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces sericeous, rarely lanate.

Scapes

300–1300 mm, hairy, hairs antrorse, long and short.

Spikes

greenish or brownish, 70–200 mm, densely or loosely flowered, flowers in whorls or pairs;

bracts ovate, 1.5–2 mm, length 0.4–0.7 times sepals, apex acute.

Flowers

sepals 2.6–3.3 mm;

corolla bilaterally symmetric, lobes reflexed, 1.7–2.6 mm, base cordate;

stamens 4, connective slightly elongated, apex obtuse.

Seeds

2, 2.3–2.8 mm.

Plantago argyrea

Phenology Flowering summer–fall.
Habitat Clearings in forests.
Elevation 700–2900 m. (2300–9500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua)
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Source FNA vol. 17, p. 284.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Plantago
Sibling taxa
P. afra, P. aristata, P. australis, P. canescens, P. cordata, P. coronopus, P. elongata, P. erecta, P. eriopoda, P. firma, P. floccosa, P. helleri, P. heterophylla, P. hookeriana, P. indica, P. lanceolata, P. macrocarpa, P. major, P. maritima, P. media, P. ovata, P. patagonica, P. pusilla, P. rhodosperma, P. rugelii, P. sempervirens, P. sparsiflora, P. subnuda, P. tweedyi, P. virginica, P. wrightiana
Name authority E. Morris: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 27: 111. (1900)
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