Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago sparsiflora |
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buckhorn plantain, English plantain, narrow-leaf plantain, ribwort, ribwort plantain |
pineland plantain |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex hairy or glabrous; roots fibrous, slender. | Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, glabrous; roots taproots, thick. |
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. |
50–300 × 10–30 mm; blade lanceolate, margins entire, sometimes toothed, veins conspicuous, laterals branching from base, surfaces sparsely hairy. |
Scapes | 300–400 mm, groove-angled, hairy. |
75–150 mm, sparsely 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, 100–450 mm, loosely flowered, rachis visible between flowers; bracts ovate, 1 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 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 1 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | (1 or)2, 2–3(–4) mm. |
2, 2 mm. |
2n | = 12. |
= 24. |
Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago sparsiflora |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Roadsides, trails, lawns, urban areas, other disturbed sites. | Moist, sandy soils, open, undisturbed pine woods. |
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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FL; GA; NC; SC
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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.) |
Populations of Plantago sparsiflora occur mainly along the Atlantic coast from Columbia County, North Carolina, south to Volusia County, Florida. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 288. | FNA vol. 17, p. 292. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Synonyms | P. lanceolata var. angustifolia, P. lanceolata var. sphaerostachya | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 94. (1803) |
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