Plantago heterophylla |
Plantago cordata |
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slender plantain |
heart-leaf plantain |
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Habit | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. | Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, glabrous; roots fibrous, thick. |
Stems | 0–10 mm. |
0–20 mm. |
Leaves | 30–80 × 1–4 mm; blade linear, margins lobed, rarely entire, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces hairy, sometimes glabrous. |
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. |
Scapes | 5–60 mm, hairy, sometimes glabrous. |
200–300 mm, glabrous. |
Spikes | greenish or brownish, 50–150 mm, loosely or densely flowered; bracts ovate, 2 mm, length 0.9–1.1 times sepals. |
brownish or greenish, 100–500 mm, loosely flowered, rachis visible between flowers; bracts round-ovate, 2 mm, length 0.8–1 times sepals. |
Flowers | sepals 2 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 0.5–1 mm, base obtuse; stamens 2. |
sepals 2–2.5 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 2–2.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | 10–25(–30), 0.5–0.8 mm. |
2–4, 2.5–3.5 mm. |
2n | = 12. |
= 24. |
Plantago heterophylla |
Plantago cordata |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Moist sandy soils. | Rocky or gravelly beds of shallow, slow-moving streams, sloughs, swamps. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; DE; FL; GA; IL; KS; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA [Introduced in South America (Argentina)]
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 287. | FNA vol. 17, p. 285. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n.s. 5: 177. (1835) | Lamarck: in J. Lamarck and J. L. M. Poiret, Tabl. Encycl. 1: 338. (1792) |
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