Plantago pusilla |
Plantago sempervirens |
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dwarf plantain, little plantain, woolly indianwheat, woolly plantain |
evergreen plantain |
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Habit | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. | Perennials, sometimes woody; roots taproots, slender. |
Stems | 0–5 mm. |
100–400 mm, freely branched. |
Leaves | 20–70 × 1–2 mm; blade linear, margins entire, sometimes toothed, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces hairy or glabrous. |
cauline, opposite, 30–60 × 0.75–1 mm; blade linear to linear-lanceolate, margins entire, veins inconspicuous, surfaces hairy. |
Scapes | 15–60 mm, hairy, sometimes glabrous. |
30–80 mm, hairy. |
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, 40–85 mm, densely flowered; bracts broadly ovate, 5–6 mm, lengths equal to sepals. |
Flowers | sepals 1.5–2 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 0.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 2. |
sepals 5–6 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 3–3.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | 4, 0.8–1.3 mm. |
1 or 2, 2 mm. |
2n | = 12. |
= 12. |
Plantago pusilla |
Plantago sempervirens |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | Flowering summer–fall. |
Habitat | Dry to moist, sandy, alluvial soils. | Disturbed habitats. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 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; s Europe [Introduced in North America] |
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 sempervirens is known from San Diego County; one specimen (JEPS) was collected in 2008 in Torrey Pines State Reserve. Plantago cynops Linnaeus (1762, not 1753), a rejected name, has been misapplied to P. sempervirens. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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) | Crantz: Inst. Rei Herb. 2: 331. (1766) |
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