Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago coronopus |
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buckhorn plantain, English plantain, narrow-leaf plantain, ribwort, ribwort plantain |
buck's-horn plantain, buck-horn plantain, cut-leaf plantain |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex hairy or glabrous; roots fibrous, slender. | Annuals, sometimes biennials; roots taproots, stout. |
Stems | 0–20 mm. |
0–10 mm. |
Leaves | 30–300 × 5–25(–45) mm; blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, margins entire or toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces glabrous or sericeous. |
20–80(–115) × 5–15 mm; blade lanceolate, margins usually 1- or 2-pinnatifid, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces villous, hairs septate, sometimes glabrate. |
Scapes | 300–400 mm, groove-angled, hairy. |
decumbent, sometimes erect, 15–150(–210) mm, villous. |
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. |
decumbent, sometimes erect, greenish, purplish, or brownish, (15–)30–300 mm, densely flowered; bracts ovate to lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm, length 0.5–0.6 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 2–3 mm; corolla radially symmetric, tube hairy, lobes reflexed, 1 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | (1 or)2, 2–3(–4) mm. |
(2–)4 (plus 1 smaller, distal one of different shape), 1–1.5 mm. |
2n | = 12. |
= 10, 20, 30 (all Eurasia). |
Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago coronopus |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Roadsides, trails, lawns, urban areas, other disturbed sites. | Moist, gravelly or sandy soils. |
Elevation | 0–3200 m. (0–10500 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 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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CA; MA; NJ; NY; OR; PA; TX; WA; BC; MB; Greenland; Eurasia; Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in s South America]
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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. 285. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Synonyms | P. lanceolata var. angustifolia, P. lanceolata var. sphaerostachya | P. coronopus subsp. commutata |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 115. (1753) |
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