Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago virginica |
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buckhorn plantain, English plantain, narrow-leaf plantain, ribwort, ribwort plantain |
dwarf plantain, pale-seed plantain, paleseed indianwheat, Virginia plantain |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex hairy or glabrous; roots fibrous, slender. | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. |
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. |
20–120 × 4–25 mm; blade obovate or narrowly obovate, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces pilose or glabrate. |
Scapes | 300–400 mm, groove-angled, hairy. |
30–240 mm, hairy, hairs patent, long. |
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 yellowish, 38–260 mm, densely or loosely flowered; bracts narrowly ovate or ovate, 1.6–2.5 mm, length 0.7–1 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 1.5–2.4 mm, apex obtuse; corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 1.1–2.9 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | (1 or)2, 2–3(–4) mm. |
2, brown or yellowish brown, 1.6–2 mm, adaxial face deeply concave. |
2n | = 12. |
= 24. |
Plantago lanceolata |
Plantago virginica |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Roadsides, trails, lawns, urban areas, other disturbed sites. | Sandy soils, disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 0–3200 m. (0–10500 ft.) | 0–2300 m. (0–7500 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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AL; AR; AZ; CA; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NE; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; WI; WV; ON; n Mexico
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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. 293. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Synonyms | P. lanceolata var. angustifolia, P. lanceolata var. sphaerostachya | P. virginica var. viridescens |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) |
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