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Plantago Linnaeus. Common name: Plantain.

Key to Plantago

A genus of about 270 species, herbs and rarely shrubs, of cosmopolitan distribution. Harper (1944) discusses at length the interesting issue of the native distributions of the many weedy species of Plantago. The native or introduced status of many of our species is uncertain or controversial.

References: Bassett (1966); Bassett (1967); Hassemer et al. (2019); Rosatti (1984); Schwarzbach In Kadereit (2004); Shipunov (2019b) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2019). Show full citations.

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image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Plantago cordata CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Keith Bradley | Plantago heterophylla | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Keith Bradley | Plantago lanceolata | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Erik Danielson | Plantago lanceolata source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Plantago aristata | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Erik Danielson | Plantago aristata source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Erik Danielson | Plantago aristata source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Plantago aristata | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Bruce A. Sorrie | Plantago lanceolata | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Plantago aristata | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Aidan Campos | Plantago aristata source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Plantago cordata CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Bruce A. Sorrie | Plantago cordata | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Plantago lanceolata CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷

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