Plantago media |
Plantago virginica |
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hoary plantain, plantain moyen |
dwarf plantain, pale-seed plantain, paleseed indianwheat, Virginia plantain |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex glabrous or hairy; roots taproots, thick. | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. |
Stems | 0–20 mm. |
0–20 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. |
20–120 × 4–25 mm; blade obovate or narrowly obovate, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces pilose or glabrate. |
Scapes | 80–300 mm, not groove-angled, hirsute. |
30–240 mm, hairy, hairs patent, long. |
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 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 mm, adaxial 2 nearly distinct; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 1.5 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 | 2–4, 2 mm. |
2, brown or yellowish brown, 1.6–2 mm, adaxial face deeply concave. |
2n | = 12, 24. |
= 24. |
Plantago media |
Plantago virginica |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed areas, neutral and basic soils. | Sandy soils, disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–2300 m. (0–7500 ft.) |
Distribution |
CT; IL; MA; ME; MI; NH; NJ; NY; PA; RI; WI; MB; NB; ON; QC; Eurasia [Introduced in North America] |
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 | 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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 290. | FNA vol. 17, p. 293. |
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Synonyms | P. virginica var. viridescens | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) |
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