Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago eriopoda |
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buckhorn plantain, English plantain, narrow-leaf plantain, ribwort, ribwort plantain |
alkali plantain, hairy fruit plantain, plantain à base velue, redwool plantain, saline plantain |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex hairy or glabrous; roots fibrous, slender. | Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, brown-woolly; roots taproots, thick. |
Stems | 0–20 mm. |
0–20 mm. |
Leaves | 30–300 × 5–25(–45) mm; blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, margins entire or toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces glabrous or sericeous. |
(30–)50–250 × (5–)15–70 mm; blade lanceolate to elliptic, margins entire, veins conspicuous, laterals branching from base, surfaces glabrous or hairy. |
Scapes | 300–400 mm, groove-angled, hairy. |
(40–)50–300 mm, glabrous or hairy. |
Spikes | 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. |
brownish or greenish, (25–)80–500 mm, loosely flowered, rachis visible between flowers; bracts broadly ovate, 2–2.5 mm, length 0.8–1.2 times sepals. |
Flowers | sepals 2–2.5 mm, adaxial 2 connate; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 2–2.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
sepals 2–2.5 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 1–1.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | (1 or)2, 2–3(–4) mm. |
2–4, 2–2.5 mm. |
2n | = 12. |
= 24. |
Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago eriopoda |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Roadsides, trails, lawns, urban areas, other disturbed sites. | Moist meadows and prairies, wetlands, marshes, fens, ditches, stream banks, saline or alkaline soils. |
Elevation | 0–3200 m. (0–10500 ft.) | 0–2900 m. (0–9500 ft.) |
Distribution |
AK; AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; MT; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; BC; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC; SPM; Greenland; Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Central America, South America, Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia]
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AK; AZ; CA; CO; IA; ID; MN; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; NY; OR; SD; UT; WY; AB; BC; MB; NT; QC; SK; YT; Mexico (Durango)
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Discussion | 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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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 288. | FNA vol. 17, p. 286. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Synonyms | P. lanceolata var. angustifolia, P. lanceolata var. sphaerostachya | P. shastensis |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) | Torrey: Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 2: 237. (1827) |
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