Plantago virginica |
Plantago indica |
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dwarf plantain, pale-seed plantain, paleseed indianwheat, Virginia plantain |
plantain des sables, sand plantain |
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Habit | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. |
Stems | 0–20 mm. |
100–350 mm, freely branched. |
Leaves | 20–120 × 4–25 mm; blade obovate or narrowly obovate, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces pilose or glabrate. |
cauline, opposite, 60–80 × 1–3 mm; blade linear to linear-lanceolate, margins entire or toothed, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces hairy. |
Scapes | 30–240 mm, hairy, hairs patent, long. |
100–650 mm, hairy. |
Spikes | greenish or yellowish, 38–260 mm, densely or loosely flowered; bracts narrowly ovate or ovate, 1.6–2.5 mm, length 0.7–1 times sepals. |
greenish or brownish, (50–)150–250 mm, densely flowered, eglandular; bracts proximal strongly differing from distal, ovate, 2–5(–7) mm, length 1–1.5 times sepals, proximal bracts: apex acute. |
Flowers | sepals 1.5–2.4 mm, apex obtuse; corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 1.1–2.9 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
sepals 2–3 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 2–4 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | 2, brown or yellowish brown, 1.6–2 mm, adaxial face deeply concave. |
2, 2–2.5 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 12. |
Plantago virginica |
Plantago indica |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Sandy soils, disturbed areas. | Roadsides, railroads, sandy shorelines. |
Elevation | 0–2300 m. (0–7500 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; AZ; CA; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NE; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; WI; WV; ON; n Mexico
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CA; CT; DE; IA; IL; IN; MA; ME; MI; MN; MO; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; VA; VT; WA; WI; BC; MB; ON; QC; Eurasia [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | While considering the proposal made by W. L. Applequist (2006) to reject Plantago psyllium, the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants also decided that P. indica is a legitimate name (R. K. Brummitt 2009). A. B. Doweld and A. Shipunov (2017) published a proposal to reject P. indica in favor of P. arenaria. That proposal awaits a decision by that committee. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 293. | FNA vol. 17, p. 288. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Plantago | Plantaginaceae > Plantago |
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Synonyms | P. virginica var. viridescens | P. arenaria, P. psyllium |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) | Linnaeus: Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 2: 896. 1759, legitimacy of — name in question |
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