Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago hookeriana |
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buckhorn plantain, English plantain, narrow-leaf plantain, ribwort, ribwort plantain |
California plantain, Hooker's plantain, tallow weed |
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| Habit | Perennials; caudex hairy or glabrous; roots fibrous, slender. | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. |
| 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. |
60–120 × 4–10 mm; blade linear, margins toothed (teeth to 4 mm), rarely entire, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces villous or sericeous. |
| Scapes | 300–400 mm, groove-angled, hairy. |
280–580 mm, hairy, hairs antrorse, long and short. |
| 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. |
greenish or brownish, 50–180 mm, densely flowered, flowers in whorls or pairs; bracts ovate or triangular, 1.5–6 mm, length 0.6–1.4 times sepals, apex acute or acuminate. |
| Flowers | sepals 2–2.5 mm, adaxial 2 connate; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 2–2.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
sepals 2.5–4 mm; corolla bilaterally symmetric, abaxial and lateral lobes reflexed, adaxial erect, 2.2–2.5 mm, base slightly cordate; stamens 4, connective significantly elongated, apex acute. |
| Seeds | (1 or)2, 2–3(–4) mm. |
2, 2.4–3.4 mm. |
| 2n | = 12. |
= 20. |
Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago hookeriana |
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| Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering spring. |
| Habitat | Roadsides, trails, lawns, urban areas, other disturbed sites. | Sandy soils, disturbed areas. |
| Elevation | 0–3200 m. [0–10500 ft.] | 0–1300 m. [0–4300 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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LA; MS; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas)
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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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| Synonyms | P. lanceolata var. angustifolia, P. lanceolata var. sphaerostachya | P. hookeriana var. nuda |
| Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) | Fischer & C. A. Meyer: Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) 1838: 39. (1839) |
| Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 288. | FNA vol. 17, p. 287. |
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