| Plantago major L. | |||
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| Family | Plantaginaceae — APG family: Plantaginaceae | ||
| Common name | common plantain | ||
| Description | More or less pubescent, leaves broadly elliptic to cordate-ovate, obtuse, with winged petioles; spike dense; bracts acute, brownish, scarious-margined, corolla yellowish-white with triangular lobes; capsule circumscissile below tips of sepals, mostly 6-10-seeded, seeds reticulate. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places, roadsides; introduced. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Exceedingly variable. Circumpolar map indicates range of P. major in broadest sense. Occurs also in Galapagos Islands. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.