Plantago maritima

Plantago maritima

Taxobox
name = "Plantago maritima"


image_width = 250px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Lamiales
familia = Plantaginaceae
genus = "Plantago"
species = "P. maritima"
binomial = "Plantago maritima"
binomial_authority = L.

"Plantago maritima" (Sea Plantain, Seaside Plantain, Goose Tongue) is a species of "Plantago", family Plantaginaceae. It has a subcosmopolitan distribution in temperate and Arctic regions, native to most of Europe, northwest Africa, northern and central Asia, northern North America, and southern South America.Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?28789 "Plantago maritima"] ] Flora Europaea: [http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Plantago&SPECIES_XREF=maritima&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK= "Plantago maritima"] ]

It is a herbaceous perennial plant with a dense rosette of stemless leaves. Each leaf is linear, 2-22 cm long and under 1 cm broad, thick and fleshy-textured, with an acute apex and a smooth or distantly toothed margin; there are three to five veins. The flowers are small, greenish-brown with brown stamens, produced in a dense spike 0.5-10 cm long on top of a stem 3-20 cm tall.Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). "Flora of Britain and Northern Europe". ISBN 0-340-40170-2] Plants of British Columbia: [http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Plantago+maritima "Plantago maritima"] ] Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: [http://www.mun.ca/biology/delta/arcticf/_ca/www/plplma.htm "Plantago maritima"] ]

There are four subspecies:
*"Plantago maritima" subsp. "maritima". Europe, Asia, northwest Africa.
*"Plantago maritima" subsp. "borealis" (Lange) A. Blytt and O. Dahl. Arctic regions. All parts of the plant small, compared to temperate plants.
*"Plantago maritima" subsp. "juncoides" (Lam.) Hultén. South America, North America (the application of this name to North American plants has been questioned).
*"Plantago maritima" subsp. "serpentina" (All.) Arcang. Central Europe, on serpentine soils in mountains.

Ecology

In much of the range it is strictly coastal, growing on sandy soils. In some areas, it also occurs in alpine habitats, along mountain streams.

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