Plantago macrocarpa |
Plantago heterophylla |
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Alaska plantain, seashore plantain |
slender plantain |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, glabrous; roots fibrous, thick. | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. |
Stems | 0–20 mm. |
0–10 mm. |
Leaves | (80–)100–400(–550) × (5–)10–35(–40) mm; blade oblanceolate or almost linear, margins entire, veins conspicuous, 4 or 5, surfaces glabrous. |
30–80 × 1–4 mm; blade linear, margins lobed, rarely entire, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces hairy, sometimes glabrous. |
Scapes | 300–400 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy, becoming densely so distally. |
5–60 mm, hairy, sometimes glabrous. |
Spikes | greenish or brownish, 350–450 mm, loosely flowered; bracts ovate to deltate, 3–4 mm, length 1.5–2.5 times sepals. |
greenish or brownish, 50–150 mm, loosely or densely flowered; bracts ovate, 2 mm, length 0.9–1.1 times sepals. |
Flowers | sepals 1.5–2 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 1.5–2 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
sepals 2 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 0.5–1 mm, base obtuse; stamens 2. |
Fruits | ovoid, indehiscent or dehiscence not circumscissile. |
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Seeds | 1 or 2, 4–5 mm. |
10–25(–30), 0.5–0.8 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 12. |
Plantago macrocarpa |
Plantago heterophylla |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Wet places, tidal marshes, saline areas. | Moist sandy soils. |
Elevation | 0–700 m. (0–2300 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
AK; OR; WA; BC; Asia
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AL; AR; DE; FL; GA; IL; KS; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA [Introduced in South America (Argentina)]
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Discussion | Plantago macrocarpa has been documented along the Pacific coast south to the mouth of the Yachats River in Oregon. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 289. | FNA vol. 17, p. 287. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Name authority | Chamisso & Schlechtendal: Linnaea 1: 166. (1826) | Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n.s. 5: 177. (1835) |
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