Plantago subnuda

Pilger

Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5: 260. 1912.

Common names: Tall coastal plantain
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 293. Mentioned on page 283, 285.

Perennials; caudex well developed, conspicuous, glabrous or hairy; roots taproots, fragile. Stems 0–10 mm. Leaves 60–360 × 15–65 mm; blade elliptic to narrowly elliptic, margins toothed, veins conspicuous, surfaces pilose, rarely glabrate, adaxial surface hairs not floccose, less than 2 mm long, more than 0.03 mm wide. Scapes 55–360 mm, hairy, hairs antrorse, long. Spikes greenish or brownish, 110–720 mm, densely or loosely flowered; bracts ovate, rarely triangular, 2.5–4 mm, length 0.8–1.3 times sepals. Flowers: sepals 2.6–3.1 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 2.4–2.7 mm, base obtuse; stamens 4. Seeds 3, 1.8–2.5 mm. 2n = 48.


Phenology: Flowering late spring–fall.
Habitat: Moist ground.
Elevation: 0–300 m.

Distribution

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Calif., Oreg., Wash.

Discussion

Plantago subnuda occurs primarily in counties along the Pacific coast from southwestern Washington to southern California.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.