An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . PI. 113. 1753. Annual or biennial, pubescent or villous; scapeserect, slender, i-i8 high, much longer than theleaves. Leaves spatulate or obovate. obtuse oracutish, thin, entire, or repand-denticulate, nar-rowed into margined petioles, or almost sessile,varying greatly in size, 3-5-nerved, ascending orspreading; spikes very dense, or the lower flowersscattered, linear-cylindri
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . PI. 113. 1753. Annual or biennial, pubescent or villous; scapeserect, slender, i-i8 high, much longer than theleaves. Leaves spatulate or obovate. obtuse oracutish, thin, entire, or repand-denticulate, nar-rowed into margined petioles, or almost sessile,varying greatly in size, 3-5-nerved, ascending orspreading; spikes very dense, or the lower flowersscattered, linear-cylindric, obtuse, 3-4 thick, usu-ally i-4 long, but in dwarf forms reduced to 2-6flowers; flowers imperfectly dioecious; corolla-lobes of the fertile plants erect and connivent onthe top of the pjxis, those of the sterile widelyspreading; stamens 4; pyxis oblong, about as longas the cahx. appearing beaked by the conniventcorolla-lobes, 2-4-seeded. the seeds yellow to brown. In dry soil, Rhode Island to Florida, Illinois, Mich-igan. Missouri, Arizona and northern Mexico. Ber-muda. March-July. Plantago rhodosperma Dene., of the Southwest,with larger flowers and larger reddish seeds, is re-corded as adventive in
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