Plantago lanceolata
buckhorn plantain, English plantain, narrow-leaf plantain, ribwort, ribwort plantain
0–20 mm.
30–300 × 5–25(–45) mm;
blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, margins entire or toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces glabrous or sericeous.
300–400 mm, groove-angled, hairy.
grayish, whitish, or yellowish, (5–)100–450(–1000) mm, usually shorter than scape, densely flowered, shiny;
corolla lobes of neighboring flowers often overlapping;
bracts broadly ovate, 2 mm, length 0.8–1 times sepals.
sepals 2–2.5 mm, adaxial 2 connate;
corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 2–2.5 mm, base obtuse;
stamens 4.
(1 or)2, 2–3(–4) mm.
= 12.
Plantago lanceolata
Plantago lanceolata is known from historic collections in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
The name Plantago altissima Linnaeus sometimes has been misapplied to North American plants of P. lanceolata.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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