Plantago virginica |
Plantago lanceolata |
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dwarf plantain, pale-seed plantain, paleseed indianwheat, Virginia plantain |
buckhorn plantain, English plantain, narrow-leaf plantain, ribwort, ribwort plantain |
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Habit | Annuals; roots taproots, slender. | Perennials; caudex hairy or glabrous; roots fibrous, slender. |
Stems | 0–20 mm. |
0–20 mm. |
Leaves | 20–120 × 4–25 mm; blade obovate or narrowly obovate, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces pilose or glabrate. |
30–300 × 5–25(–45) mm; blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, margins entire or toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces glabrous or sericeous. |
Scapes | 30–240 mm, hairy, hairs patent, long. |
300–400 mm, groove-angled, 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. |
grayish, whitish, or yellowish, (5–)100–450(–1000) mm, usually shorter than scape, densely flowered, shiny; corolla lobes of neighboring flowers often overlapping; bracts broadly ovate, 2 mm, length 0.8–1 times sepals. |
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 2–2.5 mm, adaxial 2 connate; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 2–2.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. |
Seeds | 2, brown or yellowish brown, 1.6–2 mm, adaxial face deeply concave. |
(1 or)2, 2–3(–4) mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 12. |
Plantago virginica |
Plantago lanceolata |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Sandy soils, disturbed areas. | Roadsides, trails, lawns, urban areas, other disturbed sites. |
Elevation | 0–2300 m. (0–7500 ft.) | 0–3200 m. (0–10500 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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AK; AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; MT; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; BC; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC; SPM; Greenland; Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Central America, South America, Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia]
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Discussion | Plantago lanceolata is known from historic collections in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The name Plantago altissima Linnaeus sometimes has been misapplied to North American plants of P. lanceolata. (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. lanceolata var. angustifolia, P. lanceolata var. sphaerostachya |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 113. (1753) |
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