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Plantago

Plantago
Family: Plantaginaceae
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JANAS 32(1)
PLANTS: from taproots. STEMS: extremely short, disc-like, simple or branched. LEAVES: simple, entire or variously toothed. INFLORESCENCE: scapose, long or short spikes, loose to dense. FLOWERS: several to many, inconspicuous, each subtended by a bract; sepals free (2 fused in P. lanceolata), usually with overlapping scarious margins; corolla whitish, scarious or membranous, persistent, the lobes with a thickened or colored basal spot; stamens 2-4, exserted; style exserted. FRUIT: included in the sepals or exserted, often purplish-brown. SEEDS: mucilaginous when wet, concave, the outer surface often patterned: Plantago afra and P. ovata are used as laxatives. NOTES: ca. 255 spp., cosmopolitan. (Latin: planta = flat and spread out + ago = kind of). REFERENCES: Huisinga, Kristin D. and Tina J. Ayers. 1999. Plantaginaceae. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. 32(1).
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Fls sessile or subsessile in the axils of bracts, aggregated into spikes or heads; sep 4, the 2 next the bract often slightly different from the 2 next the axis (sometimes ±connate); cor long-persistent, its tube investing the summit of the fr; capsule circumscissile at or below the middle; ours annual or perennial herbs, most spp. acaulescent. 200+, cosmop.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora
Plantago amplexicaulis
Media resource of Plantago amplexicaulis
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Plantago argyraea
Media resource of Plantago argyraea
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Plantago argyrea
Media resource of Plantago argyrea
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Plantago australis
Media resource of Plantago australis
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Plantago bigelovii
Media resource of Plantago bigelovii
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Plantago elongata
Media resource of Plantago elongata
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Plantago eriopoda
Media resource of Plantago eriopoda
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Plantago heterophylla
Media resource of Plantago heterophylla
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Plantago lanceolata
Media resource of Plantago lanceolata
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Plantago major
Media resource of Plantago major
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Plantago ovata
Media resource of Plantago ovata
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Plantago patagonica
Media resource of Plantago patagonica
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Plantago rhodosperma
Media resource of Plantago rhodosperma
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Plantago tubulosa
Media resource of Plantago tubulosa
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Plantago tweedyi
Media resource of Plantago tweedyi
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Plantago virginica
Media resource of Plantago virginica
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Plantago wrightiana
Media resource of Plantago wrightiana
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