Plantago sparsiflora |
Plantago hookeriana |
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pineland plantain |
California plantain, Hooker's plantain, tallow weed |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, glabrous; roots taproots, thick. | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. |
Stems | 0–10 mm. |
0–10 mm. |
Leaves | 50–300 × 10–30 mm; blade lanceolate, margins entire, sometimes toothed, veins conspicuous, laterals branching from base, surfaces sparsely hairy. |
60–120 × 4–10 mm; blade linear, margins toothed (teeth to 4 mm), rarely entire, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces villous or sericeous. |
Scapes | 75–150 mm, sparsely hairy. |
280–580 mm, hairy, hairs antrorse, long and short. |
Spikes | brownish or greenish, 100–450 mm, loosely flowered, rachis visible between flowers; bracts ovate, 1 mm, length 0.5–0.6 times sepals. |
greenish or brownish, 50–180 mm, densely flowered, flowers in whorls or pairs; bracts ovate or triangular, 1.5–6 mm, length 0.6–1.4 times sepals, apex acute or acuminate. |
Flowers | sepals 2 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 1 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
sepals 2.5–4 mm; corolla bilaterally symmetric, abaxial and lateral lobes reflexed, adaxial erect, 2.2–2.5 mm, base slightly cordate; stamens 4, connective significantly elongated, apex acute. |
Seeds | 2, 2 mm. |
2, 2.4–3.4 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 20. |
Plantago sparsiflora |
Plantago hookeriana |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Moist, sandy soils, open, undisturbed pine woods. | Sandy soils, disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–1300 m. (0–4300 ft.) |
Distribution |
FL; GA; NC; SC
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LA; MS; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas)
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Discussion | Populations of Plantago sparsiflora occur mainly along the Atlantic coast from Columbia County, North Carolina, south to Volusia County, Florida. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 292. | FNA vol. 17, p. 287. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Synonyms | P. hookeriana var. nuda | |
Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 94. (1803) | Fischer & C. A. Meyer: Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) 1838: 39. (1839) |
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