Plantago pusilla |
Plantago firma |
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dwarf plantain, little plantain, woolly indianwheat, woolly plantain |
Chilean plantain |
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Habit | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. |
Stems | 0–5 mm. |
0–10 mm. |
Leaves | 20–70 × 1–2 mm; blade linear, margins entire, sometimes toothed, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces hairy or glabrous. |
20–50 × 2–15 mm; blade narrowly obovate or narrowly elliptic, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces densely pilose or glabrate. |
Scapes | 15–60 mm, hairy, sometimes glabrous. |
10–50 mm, hairy, hairs appressed or nearly patent. |
Spikes | greenish or brownish, 20–100 mm, loosely or densely flowered; bracts triangular-ovate, 1.5–2 mm, length 0.9–1.1 times sepals. |
greenish or brownish, 40–60 mm, densely flowered; bracts triangular, 2–3.1 mm, length 0.7–1.1 times sepals. |
Flowers | sepals 1.5–2 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 0.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 2. |
sepals 1.8–2.8 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes patent or erect, forming a beak, 1.7–3.1 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | 4, 0.8–1.3 mm. |
2, 1.5–2.2 mm, adaxial face flat. |
2n | = 12. |
= 24. |
Plantago pusilla |
Plantago firma |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | Flowering fall. |
Habitat | Dry to moist, sandy, alluvial soils. | Sandy soils. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–1000 m. (0–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
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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CA; South America (Chile) [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion | 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.) |
Plantago firma has been known in California, especially in Marin County, since at least 1896, but the most recent collection known was made in 1957. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 291. | FNA vol. 17, p. 286. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | P. hybrida, P. pusilla var. major | P. truncata subsp. firma |
Name authority | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 100. (1818) | Kunze ex Walpers: Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol. Nat. Cur. 19, suppl. 1: 402. (1843) |
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