Plantago media |
Plantago pusilla |
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hoary plantain, plantain moyen |
dwarf plantain, little plantain, woolly indianwheat, woolly plantain |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex glabrous or hairy; roots taproots, thick. | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. |
Stems | 0–20 mm. |
0–5 mm. |
Leaves | prostrate, sometimes ascending, 40–200 × 30–70 mm; blade elliptic to ovate, margins entire or toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces hairy, hairs 0.5 mm. |
20–70 × 1–2 mm; blade linear, margins entire, sometimes toothed, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces hairy or glabrous. |
Scapes | 80–300 mm, not groove-angled, hirsute. |
15–60 mm, hairy, sometimes glabrous. |
Spikes | grayish or whitish, 100–400 mm, densely flowered, shiny; corolla lobes of neighboring flowers overlapping; bracts ovate, 1.8–2 mm, length 0.9–1 times sepals. |
greenish or brownish, 20–100 mm, loosely or densely flowered; bracts triangular-ovate, 1.5–2 mm, length 0.9–1.1 times sepals. |
Flowers | sepals 2 mm, adaxial 2 nearly distinct; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 1.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
sepals 1.5–2 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 0.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 2. |
Seeds | 2–4, 2 mm. |
4, 0.8–1.3 mm. |
2n | = 12, 24. |
= 12. |
Plantago media |
Plantago pusilla |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed areas, neutral and basic soils. | Dry to moist, sandy, alluvial soils. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
CT; IL; MA; ME; MI; NH; NJ; NY; PA; RI; WI; MB; NB; ON; QC; Eurasia [Introduced in North America] |
AL; AR; CA; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; WA
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Discussion | Three varieties of Plantago media have been recognized in western Europe. It is not clear how names of those varieties apply to P. media in eastern Europe and North America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Plantago pusilla is considered to be introduced in Oregon and Washington, and possibly in California. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 290. | FNA vol. 17, p. 291. |
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Synonyms | P. hybrida, P. pusilla var. major | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 100. (1818) |
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