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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 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