Plantago erecta |
Plantago floccosa |
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California plantain, dotseed plantain, erect dwarf plantain |
floccose plantain |
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Habit | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. | Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, glabrous or hairy; roots several taproots, fragile. |
Stems | 0–10 mm. |
0–30 mm. |
Leaves | 50–120 × 1–4 mm; blade linear, margins entire or toothed, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces villous or lanate, rarely glabrate. |
50–220 × 9–60 mm; blade elliptic to narrowly elliptic, margins with inconspicuous teeth, veins conspicuous, surfaces hairy, adaxial surface hairs floccose, slender, 4–6 × 0.01–0.03 mm. |
Scapes | 200–1500 mm, hairy, hairs antrorse, long and short. |
55–220 mm, lanate, hairs variously directed, long. |
Spikes | greenish or brownish, 70–150 mm, densely flowered, flowers in whorls or pairs; bracts ovate, 1–2 mm, length 0.3–0.8 times sepals. |
greenish or brownish, 200–500 mm, densely flowered, flowers less crowded proximally; bracts narrowly triangular or triangular, 2–2.8 mm, lengths 0.9–1 times sepals. |
Flowers | sepals 2.5–3.4 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 2–2.7 mm, base obtuse or slightly cordate; stamens 4, connective elongated, apex acute. |
sepals 1.9–2.7 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 2–2.9 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | 2, 2.1–2.9 mm. |
3, 1.8–2.4 mm. |
2n | = 20. |
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Plantago erecta |
Plantago floccosa |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering spring–fall. |
Habitat | Dunes, grassy hills and flats, clearings in woods. | Roadsides. |
Elevation | -50–1400 m. (-200–4600 ft.) | 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
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FL; Mexico (Hidalgo, México, Querétaro, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz) [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | According to J. Burkhalter (pers. comm.), Plantago floccosa is well established in northwestern Florida near the border with Alabama. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 286. | FNA vol. 17, p. 287. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | P. patagonica var. californica, P. erecta subsp. rigidior, P. hookeriana var. californica | |
Name authority | E. Morris: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 27: 118. (1900) | Decaisne: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 723. (1852) |
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