Plantago ovata

Annuals; roots taproots, slender. Stems 0–30 mm, often branched. Leaves 10–230 × 0.5–12 mm; blade linear or narrowly elliptic, margins toothed, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces villous or lanate to sericeous. Scapes 10–400 mm, hairy, hairs woolly, long. Spikes grayish or brownish, 20–400 mm, densely flowered, flowers in spirals; bracts ovate or elliptic, 1.7–4 mm, length 0.8–1.2 times sepals, apex not reached by green nerve. Flowers: sepals 1.9–3.5 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes reflexed, 1.3–2.8 mm, base cuneate; stamens 4. Seeds 2, 2–2.6 mm. 2n = 8.

Plantago Ovata

Plantago ovata

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