Plantago rhodosperma |
Plantago cordata |
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redseed indianwheat, redseed plantain, Virginia plantain |
heart-leaf plantain |
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Habit | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. | Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, glabrous; roots fibrous, thick. |
Stems | 0–10 mm. |
0–20 mm. |
Leaves | 60–290 × 7–30 mm; blade obovate or elliptic, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces pilose. |
100–300 × 80–200 mm; petiole to 300 mm; blade broadly oval to cordate-ovate, margins entire, veins conspicuous, laterals branching from midvein distal to base, surfaces glabrous. |
Scapes | 15–150 mm, hairy, hairs patent, long. |
200–300 mm, glabrous. |
Spikes | 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. |
brownish or greenish, 100–500 mm, loosely flowered, rachis visible between flowers; bracts round-ovate, 2 mm, length 0.8–1 times sepals. |
Flowers | 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. |
sepals 2–2.5 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 2–2.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | 2, dark red, 2.3–2.8 mm, adaxial face concave. |
2–4, 2.5–3.5 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Plantago rhodosperma |
Plantago cordata |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Rocky or sandy soils, grasslands, disturbed areas. | Rocky or gravelly beds of shallow, slow-moving streams, sloughs, swamps. |
Elevation | 0–2600 m. (0–8500 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; AZ; CA; GA; IL; KS; KY; LA; MO; MS; NE; NM; OK; TN; TX; n Mexico
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AL; AR; DC; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KY; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NY; OH; TN; VA; WI; ON
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Discussion | Plantago cordata is listed as federally endangered in Canada and is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 292. | FNA vol. 17, p. 285. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Decaisne: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 722. (1852) | Lamarck: in J. Lamarck and J. L. M. Poiret, Tabl. Encycl. 1: 338. (1792) |
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