Flora of North America species comparison

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Plantago coronopus

buck's-horn plantain, buck-horn plantain, cut-leaf plantain
Habit Annuals, sometimes biennials; roots taproots, stout.
Stems

0–10 mm.
Leaves

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

decumbent, sometimes erect, 15–150(–210) mm, villous.
Spikes

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 2–3 mm;

corolla radially symmetric, tube hairy, lobes reflexed, 1 mm, base obtuse;

stamens 4.
Seeds

(2–)4 (plus 1 smaller, distal one of different shape), 1–1.5 mm.
2n

= 10, 20, 30 (all Eurasia).

Plantago coronopus
Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Moist, gravelly or sandy soils.
Elevation 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
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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Source FNA vol. 17, p. 285.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Plantago
Sibling taxa
P. afra, P. argyrea, P. aristata, P. australis, P. canescens, P. cordata, 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
Synonyms P. coronopus subsp. commutata
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 115. (1753)
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