| Plantago eriopoda Torr. | |||
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| Family | Plantaginaceae — APG family: Plantaginaceae | ||
| Description | Plant with stout caudex, brown-woolly at crown; leaves fleshy or subcoriaceous, lanceolate to lance-ovate, tapering into broad petiole; lower flowers remote; bracts broadly ovate, with rounded keel; sepals rounded-elliptic, truncate, scarcely keeled; capsule circumscissile near base; seeds 2—4 in capsule. | ||
| Ecology | Salt or alkaline soil. Described from the Platte River. |
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.