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coastal plantain, Mexican plantain, tall coastal plantain

Tweedy's plantain

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

0–10 mm.

0–20 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.

40–200 × 10–30 mm;

blade lanceolate-spatulate to narrowly ovate, margins entire, sometimes toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces usually glabrous.

Scapes

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

25–200 mm, slightly surpassing leaves, glabrous.

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.

brownish or greenish, 45–250 mm, densely flowered, rachis not clearly visible between flowers;

bracts broadly ovate, 2 mm, length 0.8–1 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 2–2.5 mm;

corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 1 mm, base obtuse;

stamens 4.

Seeds

3, 1.8–2.5 mm.

3 or 4, 2–2.3 mm.

2n

= 48.

= 24.

Plantago subnuda

Plantago tweedyi

Phenology Flowering late spring–fall. Flowering summer.
Habitat Moist ground. Grasslands, sagebrush steppes, montane and subalpine meadows.
Elevation 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) 1600–4000 m. (5200–13100 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; WA
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from FNA
AZ; CO; ID; MT; NM; UT; WY
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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. 293.
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. 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. subnuda, P. virginica, P. wrightiana
Name authority Pilger: Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5: 260. (1912) A. Gray: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2, 2(1): 390. (1886)
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