Plantago lanceolata
Plantago lanceolata
Damarlıca
Perennial, 7-90 cm, usually with several rosettes. Leaves 7-42 x 0.4-5 cm, lanceolate-ovate, lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, entire or irregularly dentate, 3-5-veined, glabrous, pilose or villous, sessile or with a petiole 1/3-1 x as long as lamina. Scapes 7-85 cm, 5-sulcate, ± adpressed-hairy. Spikes 0.5-5.5 cm, cylindrical, conical-cylindrical or globose, very dense. Bracts shortly caudate, acute, ± concave, glabrous or hairy, lower c. 4 mm, upper c. 3 mm. Anterior sepals 2.5-3.5 mm, broadly orbicular-ovate, connate but with their midribs separate, apex truncate, brown, glabrous; posterior 3-3.5 mm, plicate-concave, asymmetrical. Corolla lobes 1.5-2.5 mm, trigonous-ovate, lanceolate to ovate, acute or acuminate, veins inconspicuous, brownish. Anthers yellow. Capsule conical. Seeds 2.5 mm, cymbiform, shining, ferrugineous or brown. Fl. 4-10. Sea shores, sandy beaches, meadows, marshy ground, macchie, streamsides, coppices, Pinus forest, roadsides, waste places, s.l.-3050 m.
Europe, N. Africa, Asia; adventive to N. America.
