Plantago heterophylla |
Plantago wrightiana |
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slender plantain |
Wright's plantain |
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Habit | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. |
Stems | 0–10 mm. |
10–40 mm. |
Leaves | 30–80 × 1–4 mm; blade linear, margins lobed, rarely entire, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces hairy, sometimes glabrous. |
60–160 × 3–5 mm; blade linear, margins entire, veins conspicuous or not, abaxial surface villous, adaxial glabrous, rarely sparsely villous. |
Scapes | 5–60 mm, hairy, sometimes glabrous. |
800–1600 mm, hairy, hairs antrorse, long and short. |
Spikes | greenish or brownish, 50–150 mm, loosely or densely flowered; bracts ovate, 2 mm, length 0.9–1.1 times sepals. |
greenish or brownish, (20–)150–250 mm, densely flowered, flowers in whorls or pairs; bracts ovate or triangular, 1–3.5 mm, length 0.4–0.8 times sepals. |
Flowers | sepals 2 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 0.5–1 mm, base obtuse; stamens 2. |
sepals 3–4 mm; corolla bilaterally symmetric, lobes reflexed, adaxials 2.4–3 mm, laterals asymmetric, base cordate; stamens 4, connective elongated, apex acute. |
Seeds | 10–25(–30), 0.5–0.8 mm. |
2, 2.8–3.2 mm. |
2n | = 12. |
= 20. |
Plantago heterophylla |
Plantago wrightiana |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Moist sandy soils. | Sandy and gravelly soils, roadsides. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–1000(–1300) m. (0–3300(–4300) 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; AZ; FL; GA; KS; KY; LA; MD; MS; NC; NM; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango)
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 287. | FNA vol. 17, p. 293. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n.s. 5: 177. (1835) | Decaisne: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 712. (1852) |
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