Rugel's plantain

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Rugel's plantain

Rugel's plantain flowers

Rugel's plantain

Rugel's plantain inflorescence

Rugel's plantain

Morphology

Stem

Stems absent or essentially so. Plants green, glabrous or glabrate.

Leaves

Basal; petiole bases winged, often purplish; blades lanceolate to broadly ovate, 1.6 to 9 inches long, .8 to 6 inches wide, margins entire to undulate or coarsely dentate, tip acute or rounded.

Inflorescence

Terminal spikes, long-cylindric, 2 to 14 inches; bracts lanceolate, 1 to 1.3 times as long as calyx; peduncles glabrous or glabrate.

Flower

Calyx 4-lobed, lobes ovate to oblong, .06 to .08 inch, margins broadly membranous, somewhat translucent; corolla semi-transparent but sometimes appearing white, tubular, 4-lobed, lobes less than .05 inch, reflexed; stamens 4.

Fruit

Capsules lanceoloid, 1/8 to 2/5 inch; seeds 4 to 9, black, elliptic, ca. 1/12 inch.

Ecology

Habitat

Shaded lawns, stream valleys, pastures, waste places

Distribution

Occurs nearly statewide

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