Plantago tweedyi |
Plantago canescens |
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Tweedy's plantain |
arctic plantain, gray-pubescent plantain, Siberian plantain |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, glabrous; roots taproots, thick. | Perennials; caudex usually woolly; roots taproots, thick. |
Stems | 0–20 mm. |
0–20 mm. |
Leaves | 40–200 × 10–30 mm; blade lanceolate-spatulate to narrowly ovate, margins entire, sometimes toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces usually glabrous. |
ascending, 180–250 × 6–20 mm; blade linear to lanceolate or oblanceolate, margins entire, rarely toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces glabrate or hairy, hairs 1 mm. |
Scapes | 25–200 mm, slightly surpassing leaves, glabrous. |
50–230 mm, not groove-angled, hairy or 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. |
grayish or whitish, 80–350 mm, usually densely flowered, shiny; corolla lobes of neighboring flowers often overlapping; bracts broadly ovate, 1.8–2 mm, length 0.9–1 times sepals. |
Flowers | sepals 2–2.5 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes spreading, 1 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
sepals 2 mm, adaxial 2 nearly distinct; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 2 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | 3 or 4, 2–2.3 mm. |
3–7, 1–1.8 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 12. |
Plantago tweedyi |
Plantago canescens |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Grasslands, sagebrush steppes, montane and subalpine meadows. | Grassy, gravelly, and rocky slopes, cliffs. |
Elevation | 1600–4000 m. (5200–13100 ft.) | 0–2000 m. (0–6600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; ID; MT; NM; UT; WY
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AK; MT; AB; BC; NT; NU; YT; Asia |
Discussion | N. N. Tzvelev (1983) recognized six subspecies (including two in North America) within Plantago canescens; North American material is not segregated as such here. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 293. | FNA vol. 17, p. 285. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | P. septata | |
Name authority | A. Gray: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2, 2(1): 390. (1886) | Adams: Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 9: 233, plate 13, fig. 1. (1834) |
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