Plantago helleri |
Plantago virginica |
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Heller's plantain |
dwarf plantain, pale-seed plantain, paleseed indianwheat, Virginia plantain |
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Habit | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. |
Stems | 0–12 mm. |
0–20 mm. |
Leaves | 50–130 × 3–7 mm; blade linear, margins entire, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces villous, adaxial rarely glabrous. |
20–120 × 4–25 mm; blade obovate or narrowly obovate, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces pilose or glabrate. |
Scapes | 80–250 mm, hairy, hairs patent, long and antrorse, short. |
30–240 mm, hairy, hairs patent, long. |
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. |
greenish or yellowish, 38–260 mm, densely or loosely flowered; bracts narrowly ovate or ovate, 1.6–2.5 mm, length 0.7–1 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 1.5–2.4 mm, apex obtuse; corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 1.1–2.9 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | 2, 3.2–3.8 mm. |
2, brown or yellowish brown, 1.6–2 mm, adaxial face deeply concave. |
2n | = 20. |
= 24. |
Plantago helleri |
Plantago virginica |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Dry slopes and flats on limestone. | Sandy soils, disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 100–1700 m. (300–5600 ft.) | 0–2300 m. (0–7500 ft.) |
Distribution |
NM; TX
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AL; AR; AZ; CA; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NE; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; WI; WV; ON; n Mexico
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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. 293. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Synonyms | P. virginica var. viridescens | |
Name authority | Small: Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 288. (1899) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) |
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