Plantago tweedyi |
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Tweedy's plantain |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, glabrous; roots taproots, thick. |
Stems | 0–20 mm. |
Leaves | 40–200 × 10–30 mm; blade lanceolate-spatulate to narrowly ovate, margins entire, sometimes toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces usually glabrous. |
Scapes | 25–200 mm, slightly surpassing leaves, glabrous. |
Spikes | 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 2–2.5 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 1 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | 3 or 4, 2–2.3 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
Plantago tweedyi |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Grasslands, sagebrush steppes, montane and subalpine meadows. |
Elevation | 1600–4000 m. (5200–13100 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; ID; MT; NM; UT; WY
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 293. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
Sibling taxa | |
Name authority | A. Gray: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2, 2(1): 390. (1886) |
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