Plantago media
Plantago media
Şimşekyaprağı
Perennial with 1-few rosettes. Leaves 4.5-11.5 x 1.5-3 cm, elliptic-ovate to elliptic, gradually narrowed into petiole, entire, 3-7-veined, with septate hairs, Scapes striate, erect or ascending, 25-30 cm. Spikes 4-9.5 cm, dense, narrowly cylindrical. Bracts narrowly ovate, 2-2.5 mm, often glabrous, with fleshy keel. Anterior sepals c. 2.5 mm, obovate-elliptic, glabrous, strongly keeled; posterior 2.5 mm, elliptic-ovate, ±rotund. Corolla lobes shining, white-hyaline, lanceolate-ovate or narrowly ovate, midrib ± indistinct; tube c. 2 mm, pale brown. Filaments c. 2.5-3 x as long as corolla tube, pale brown or lilac. Anthers lilac, purple or white. Capsule ellipsoid. Seeds usually 4. Fl. 6-8. Montane slopes, steppe, dry grassland, 1600-2300 m.
Most of Europe, Siberia, Caucasia, Iran, N. Iraq, C. Asia, Kamchatka, Canada.
