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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 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