Plantago pusilla |
Plantago virginica |
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dwarf plantain, little plantain, woolly indianwheat, woolly plantain |
dwarf plantain, pale-seed plantain, paleseed indianwheat, Virginia plantain |
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Habit | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. |
Stems | 0–5 mm. |
0–20 mm. |
Leaves | 20–70 × 1–2 mm; blade linear, margins entire, sometimes toothed, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces hairy or glabrous. |
20–120 × 4–25 mm; blade obovate or narrowly obovate, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces pilose or glabrate. |
Scapes | 15–60 mm, hairy, sometimes glabrous. |
30–240 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 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 1.5–2 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 0.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 2. |
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 | 4, 0.8–1.3 mm. |
2, brown or yellowish brown, 1.6–2 mm, adaxial face deeply concave. |
2n | = 12. |
= 24. |
Plantago pusilla |
Plantago virginica |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Dry to moist, sandy, alluvial soils. | Sandy soils, disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–2300 m. (0–7500 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; 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 | 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. 293. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Synonyms | P. hybrida, P. pusilla var. major | P. virginica var. viridescens |
Name authority | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 100. (1818) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) |
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