Plantaginaceae
Herbs with basal leaves Plantaginaceae
Anterior sepals free
Leaves all basal
Ovules 2–5 per ovary
Corolla tube hairy outside. Leaves 1–3-veined, linear to narrow-ovate, deeply 1–2-pinnatifid with narrow lobes, 2–15 cm long. Capsule with 4 seeds, ± pubescent annual or biennial herbs
Scapes 0.5–1.8 mm diam., slender, mostly longer than the leaves. Spikes dense; the flowers ± spreading. Bracts longer than the sepals, acuminate. Widespread. Waste land. Introd. from Europe and W. Asia. Fl. spring–summer. Buckshorn Plantain Plantago coronopuscoronopus
Scapes 1.3–2.3 mm diam., rarely less, stout, shorter than the leaves or equalling them. Spikes very dense; the flowers appressed. Bracts mostly longer than or as long as the sepals, acute or obtuse. Coast. Waste land. Introd. from the Mediterranean. Fl. spring–summer Plantago coronopus. commutata