Plantago pusilla |
Plantago rhodosperma |
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dwarf plantain, little plantain, woolly indianwheat, woolly plantain |
redseed indianwheat, redseed plantain, Virginia 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. |
60–290 × 7–30 mm; blade obovate or elliptic, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces pilose. |
Scapes | 15–60 mm, hairy, sometimes glabrous. |
15–150 mm, hairy, hairs patent, long. |
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, yellowish, or brownish, 35–300 mm, densely or loosely flowered; bracts narrowly triangular or triangular, 2.5–3.2 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 asymmetric, 2.7–3.6 mm, apex acuminate; corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 2–3.1 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | 4, 0.8–1.3 mm. |
2, dark red, 2.3–2.8 mm, adaxial face concave. |
2n | = 12. |
= 24. |
Plantago pusilla |
Plantago rhodosperma |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Dry to moist, sandy, alluvial soils. | Rocky or sandy soils, grasslands, disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–2600 m. (0–8500 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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AL; AR; AZ; CA; GA; IL; KS; KY; LA; MO; MS; NE; NM; OK; TN; TX; n Mexico
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 291. | FNA vol. 17, p. 292. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Synonyms | P. hybrida, P. pusilla var. major | |
Name authority | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 100. (1818) | Decaisne: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 722. (1852) |
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