| Plantago canescens Adams | |||
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| Family | Plantaginaceae — APG family: Plantaginaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Plantago septata Morris., Plantago richardsonii Decne. | ||
| Description | Plant with taproot; caudex covered with withered sheaths; leaves erect, narrowly lanceolate, sparsely pubescent on both sides with septate hairs; scapes woolly be- low; spikes dense, 3-6 cm long; bracts ovate to suborbicular, scarious-margined; calyx lobes obovate to oblong, lacerate, ciliolate; tube of corolla as long as sepals, the lobes oblong, obtuse, denticulate, whitish; stamens exserted; capsule circum- scissile about one-third of the way from base; seeds 1-2. | ||
| Ecology | Grassy slopes, open soil. |
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.