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heart-leaf plantain

redseed indianwheat, redseed plantain, Virginia plantain

Habit Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, glabrous; roots fibrous, thick. Annuals; roots taproots, slender.
Stems

0–20 mm.

0–10 mm.

Leaves

100–300 × 80–200 mm;

petiole to 300 mm;

blade broadly oval to cordate-ovate, margins entire, veins conspicuous, laterals branching from midvein distal to base, surfaces glabrous.

60–290 × 7–30 mm;

blade obovate or elliptic, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces pilose.

Scapes

200–300 mm, glabrous.

15–150 mm, hairy, hairs patent, long.

Spikes

brownish or greenish, 100–500 mm, loosely flowered, rachis visible between flowers;

bracts round-ovate, 2 mm, length 0.8–1 times sepals.

greenish, yellowish, or brownish, 35–300 mm, densely or loosely flowered;

bracts narrowly triangular or triangular, 2.5–3.2 mm, length 0.7–1.1 times sepals.

Flowers

sepals 2–2.5 mm;

corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 2–2.5 mm, base obtuse;

stamens 4.

sepals asymmetric, 2.7–3.6 mm, apex acuminate;

corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 2–3.1 mm, base obtuse;

stamens 4.

Seeds

2–4, 2.5–3.5 mm.

2, dark red, 2.3–2.8 mm, adaxial face concave.

2n

= 24.

= 24.

Plantago cordata

Plantago rhodosperma

Phenology Flowering late spring–early summer. Flowering spring.
Habitat Rocky or gravelly beds of shallow, slow-moving streams, sloughs, swamps. Rocky or sandy soils, grasslands, disturbed areas.
Elevation 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) 0–2600 m. (0–8500 ft.)
Distribution
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AL; AR; DC; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KY; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NY; OH; TN; VA; WI; ON
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Discussion

Plantago cordata is listed as federally endangered in Canada and is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.

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

Source FNA vol. 17, p. 285. FNA vol. 17, p. 292.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Plantago Plantaginaceae > Plantago
Sibling taxa
P. afra, P. argyrea, P. aristata, P. australis, P. canescens, 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
P. afra, P. argyrea, 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. rugelii, P. sempervirens, P. sparsiflora, P. subnuda, P. tweedyi, P. virginica, P. wrightiana
Name authority Lamarck: in J. Lamarck and J. L. M. Poiret, Tabl. Encycl. 1: 338. (1792) Decaisne: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 722. (1852)
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