Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago sempervirens |
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buckhorn plantain, English plantain, narrow-leaf plantain, ribwort, ribwort plantain |
evergreen plantain |
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| Habit | Perennials; caudex hairy or glabrous; roots fibrous, slender. | Perennials, sometimes woody; roots taproots, slender. |
| Stems | 0–20 mm. |
100–400 mm, freely branched. |
| Leaves | 30–300 × 5–25(–45) mm; blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, margins entire or toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces glabrous or sericeous. |
cauline, opposite, 30–60 × 0.75–1 mm; blade linear to linear-lanceolate, margins entire, veins inconspicuous, surfaces hairy. |
| Scapes | 300–400 mm, groove-angled, hairy. |
30–80 mm, 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. |
greenish or brownish, 40–85 mm, densely flowered; bracts broadly ovate, 5–6 mm, lengths equal to sepals. |
| Flowers | sepals 2–2.5 mm, adaxial 2 connate; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 2–2.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
sepals 5–6 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 3–3.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
| Seeds | (1 or)2, 2–3(–4) mm. |
1 or 2, 2 mm. |
| 2n | = 12. |
= 12. |
Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago sempervirens |
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| Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer–fall. |
| Habitat | Roadsides, trails, lawns, urban areas, other disturbed sites. | Disturbed habitats. |
| 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; s Europe [Introduced in North America] |
| 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.) |
Plantago sempervirens is known from San Diego County; one specimen (JEPS) was collected in 2008 in Torrey Pines State Reserve. Plantago cynops Linnaeus (1762, not 1753), a rejected name, has been misapplied to P. sempervirens. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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| Synonyms | P. lanceolata var. angustifolia, P. lanceolata var. sphaerostachya | |
| Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) | Crantz: Inst. Rei Herb. 2: 331. (1766) |
| Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 288. | FNA vol. 17, p. 292. |
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