Plantago aristata |
Plantago coronopus |
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bottlebrush indianwheat, bract plantain, bristly plantain, large bract plantain |
buck's-horn plantain, buck-horn plantain, cut-leaf plantain |
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Habit | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. | Annuals, sometimes biennials; roots taproots, stout. |
Stems | 20–40 mm. |
0–10 mm. |
Leaves | 30–200 × 3–7 mm; blade linear or narrowly lanceolate, margins entire, rarely toothed, veins conspicuous or not, abaxial surface villous, adaxial glabrous or sparsely villous. |
20–80(–115) × 5–15 mm; blade lanceolate, margins usually 1- or 2-pinnatifid, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces villous, hairs septate, sometimes glabrate. |
Scapes | 100–500 mm, hairy, hairs antrorse, long and short. |
decumbent, sometimes erect, 15–150(–210) mm, villous. |
Spikes | greenish or brownish, 80–150 mm, densely flowered, flowers in whorls or pairs; bracts almost linear, 15–30 mm, length 2–12 times sepals. |
decumbent, sometimes erect, greenish, purplish, or brownish, (15–)30–300 mm, densely flowered; bracts ovate to lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm, length 0.5–0.6 times sepals. |
Flowers | sepals 2.7–3.7 mm; corolla bilaterally symmetric, lobes reflexed, adaxials 1.4–2.3 mm, laterals symmetric, base deeply cordate; stamens 4, connective elongated, apex acute. |
sepals 2–3 mm; corolla radially symmetric, tube hairy, lobes reflexed, 1 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | 2, 2.5–2.9 mm. |
(2–)4 (plus 1 smaller, distal one of different shape), 1–1.5 mm. |
2n | = 20. |
= 10, 20, 30 (all Eurasia). |
Plantago aristata |
Plantago coronopus |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Roadsides, pastures, disturbed ground. | Moist, gravelly or sandy soils. |
Elevation | 0–700 m. (0–2300 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; NS; ON [Introduced in Central America, Europe, Asia]
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CA; MA; NJ; NY; OR; PA; TX; WA; BC; MB; Greenland; Eurasia; Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in s South America]
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Discussion | Plantago aristata is similar to P. patagonica; the latter is distinguished by its dense, villous indument. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 284. | FNA vol. 17, p. 285. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Synonyms | P. patagonica var. aristata, P. purshii var. aristata | P. coronopus subsp. commutata |
Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 95. (1803) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 115. (1753) |
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