Plantago macrocarpa Cham. & Schlecht.
 
FamilyPlantaginaceae — APG family: Plantaginaceae
DescriptionScapes from thick, stout, vertical root with long, broad sheaths at crown; leaves glabrous, erect, lanceolate, somewhat acute, elongated into broad petiole; scapes canescent below inflorescence; spike up to 10 cm long; bracts rounded, erose in margin, dark-brown sepals ovate to elliptic, glabrous; corolla with ovate to tri- angular-ovate lobes and tube 3 mm long, nerveless; capsules large, elliptic, lacking lid, indehiscent, falling off entire; seeds 2.
EcologyWet places, beaches.
Hultén's Flora About

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.