Plantago helleri |
Plantago coronopus |
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Heller's 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 | 0–12 mm. |
0–10 mm. |
Leaves | 50–130 × 3–7 mm; blade linear, margins entire, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces villous, adaxial rarely glabrous. |
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 | 80–250 mm, hairy, hairs patent, long and antrorse, short. |
decumbent, sometimes erect, 15–150(–210) mm, villous. |
Spikes | greenish, whitish, or brownish, 50–120 mm, densely flowered, flowers in whorls or pairs; bracts triangular, 2.5–8 mm, length 0.6–2.2 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 3.5–4 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 3–3.6 mm, base slightly 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, 3.2–3.8 mm. |
(2–)4 (plus 1 smaller, distal one of different shape), 1–1.5 mm. |
2n | = 20. |
= 10, 20, 30 (all Eurasia). |
Plantago helleri |
Plantago coronopus |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Dry slopes and flats on limestone. | Moist, gravelly or sandy soils. |
Elevation | 100–1700 m. (300–5600 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
NM; TX
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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 | Populations of Plantago helleri are concentrated in central Texas, especially in the Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos. The species also occurs in Eddy and Lincoln counties, New Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 287. | FNA vol. 17, p. 285. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Synonyms | P. coronopus subsp. commutata | |
Name authority | Small: Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 288. (1899) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 115. (1753) |
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