Plantago sparsiflora |
Plantago virginica |
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pineland plantain |
dwarf plantain, pale-seed plantain, paleseed indianwheat, Virginia plantain |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, glabrous; roots taproots, thick. | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. |
Stems | 0–10 mm. |
0–20 mm. |
Leaves | 50–300 × 10–30 mm; blade lanceolate, margins entire, sometimes toothed, veins conspicuous, laterals branching from base, surfaces sparsely hairy. |
20–120 × 4–25 mm; blade obovate or narrowly obovate, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces pilose or glabrate. |
Scapes | 75–150 mm, sparsely hairy. |
30–240 mm, hairy, hairs patent, long. |
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 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 2 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 1 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
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 | 2, 2 mm. |
2, brown or yellowish brown, 1.6–2 mm, adaxial face deeply concave. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Plantago sparsiflora |
Plantago virginica |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Moist, sandy soils, open, undisturbed pine woods. | Sandy soils, disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–2300 m. (0–7500 ft.) |
Distribution |
FL; GA; NC; SC
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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 | 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. 293. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Synonyms | P. virginica var. viridescens | |
Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 94. (1803) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) |
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