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coastal plantain, Mexican plantain, tall coastal plantain

California plantain, dotseed plantain, erect dwarf plantain

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

0–10 mm.

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.

50–120 × 1–4 mm;

blade linear, margins entire or toothed, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces villous or lanate, rarely glabrate.

Scapes

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

200–1500 mm, hairy, hairs antrorse, long and short.

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.

greenish or brownish, 70–150 mm, densely flowered, flowers in whorls or pairs;

bracts ovate, 1–2 mm, length 0.3–0.8 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.

sepals 2.5–3.4 mm;

corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 2–2.7 mm, base obtuse or slightly cordate;

stamens 4, connective elongated, apex acute.

Seeds

3, 1.8–2.5 mm.

2, 2.1–2.9 mm.

2n

= 48.

= 20.

Plantago subnuda

Plantago erecta

Phenology Flowering late spring–fall. Flowering spring.
Habitat Moist ground. Dunes, grassy hills and flats, clearings in woods.
Elevation 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) -50–1400 m. (-200–4600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; WA
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from FNA
CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
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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. FNA vol. 17, p. 286.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Plantago 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
P. afra, P. argyrea, P. aristata, P. australis, P. canescens, P. cordata, P. coronopus, P. elongata, 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. subnuda, P. tweedyi, P. virginica, P. wrightiana
Synonyms P. patagonica var. californica, P. erecta subsp. rigidior, P. hookeriana var. californica
Name authority Pilger: Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5: 260. (1912) E. Morris: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 27: 118. (1900)
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