Flora of North America species comparison

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Plantago sempervirens

evergreen plantain
Habit Perennials, sometimes woody; roots taproots, slender.
Stems

100–400 mm, freely branched.
Leaves

cauline, opposite, 30–60 × 0.75–1 mm;

blade linear to linear-lanceolate, margins entire, veins inconspicuous, surfaces hairy.
Scapes

30–80 mm, hairy.
Spikes

greenish or brownish, 40–85 mm, densely flowered;

bracts broadly ovate, 5–6 mm, lengths equal to sepals.
Flowers

sepals 5–6 mm;

corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 3–3.5 mm, base obtuse;

stamens 4.
Seeds

1 or 2, 2 mm.
2n

= 12.

Plantago sempervirens
Phenology Flowering summer–fall.
Habitat Disturbed habitats.
Elevation 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; s Europe [Introduced in North America]
Discussion

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. 292.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Plantago
Sibling taxa
P. afra, P. argyrea, P. aristata, P. australis, P. canescens, P. cordata, P. coronopus, P. elongata, P. erecta, P. eriopoda, P. firma, P. floccosa, P. helleri, P. heterophylla, P. hookeriana, P. indica, P. lanceolata, P. macrocarpa, P. major, P. maritima, P. media, P. ovata, P. patagonica, P. pusilla, P. rhodosperma, P. rugelii, P. sparsiflora, P. subnuda, P. tweedyi, P. virginica, P. wrightiana
Name authority Crantz: Inst. Rei Herb. 2: 331. (1766)
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