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coastal plantain, Mexican plantain, tall coastal plantain

Habit Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, glabrous or hairy; roots taproots, fragile.
Stems

0–10 mm.

Leaves

60–360 × 15–65 mm;

blade elliptic to narrowly elliptic, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces pilose, rarely glabrate, adaxial surface hairs not floccose, less than 2 mm long, more than 0.03 mm wide.

Scapes

55–360 mm, hairy, hairs antrorse, long.

Spikes

greenish or brownish, 110–720 mm, densely or loosely flowered;

bracts ovate, rarely triangular, 2.5–4 mm, length 0.8–1.3 times sepals.

Flowers

sepals 2.6–3.1 mm;

corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 2.4–2.7 mm, base obtuse;

stamens 4.

Seeds

3, 1.8–2.5 mm.

2n

= 48.

Plantago subnuda

Phenology Flowering late spring–fall.
Habitat Moist ground.
Elevation 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; WA
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Discussion

Plantago subnuda occurs primarily in counties along the Pacific coast from southwestern Washington to southern California.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 17, p. 293.
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. sempervirens, P. sparsiflora, P. tweedyi, P. virginica, P. wrightiana
Name authority Pilger: Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5: 260. (1912)
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