Plantago lanceolata L.
-
Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
-
Family
Plantaginaceae
-
Scientific Name
-
Description
Species Description - Perennial or biennial, pubescent; rootstoek short, erect, with tufts of brown hairs at the bases of the leaves. Leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, shorter than the scapes, entire, acute or acuminate, gradually narrowed into petioles, 3-5-ribbed, 5-30 cm. long; scapes slender, channeled, sometimes 7.5 dm. tall; spikes dense, at first ovoid, becoming cylindric, blunt and 1-10 cm. long in fruit, 8-12 mm. thick; flowers perfect, proterogynous; sepals ovate, with a narrow green midrib and broad scarious margins, the two lower ones commonly united; corolla glabrous; filaments white; pyxis oblong, very obtuse, 2-seeded, slightly longer than the calyx, circumseissile at about the middle.
-
Distribution
Roadsides, New Providence : Bermuda ; North America ; Cuba ; Jamaica. Naturalized from the Old World. Ribwort.
New Providence Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Jamaica South America|