Family |
Plantaginaceae
Plantago lagopus
L.
Plantago lagopus L.
First published in Sp. Pl.: 114 (1753).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, p. 285, Pl. CXLVI, 3a–b; 1983)
• Life-form & habit: Usually annual herb, 10–50 cm tall, with curved or flexuous, ascending flowering stalks.
• Leaves: Lanceolate, tapering at both ends, with 3–5 veins, usually 5–12 cm long and sometimes reaching 18 cm. Leaves are spreading to ascending, thin to papery, hairless or hairy.
• Inflorescence & flowers: Very dense, ovoid to short cylindrical spikes. Bracts and sepals are ovate, keeled and covered in long hairs; the calyx tips appear conspicuously white when fresh. Corolla lobes are sharply pointed, about 2 mm long.
• Fruit: Ellipsoid capsule.
• Phenology: Flowering February–August.
• Habitat & elevation: Cultivated ground and grassy places.
• Lebanese distribution: Saida, Jiye, Aouzai, Nahr el Kalb, Beirut, Asfouriye, Tripoli, Jamhour, Mkalles, Antoura, below Beit Meri, Jabal Terbol, Dhour Choueir, Maghdouche and Kornet Chehwan.
• Syrian distribution: Latakia, Khan Cheikhoun–Maaret en Noman, Aleppo, Hama, Homs–Tell Kalakh, Ezraa and Hamme.
• Native range: Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Western Sahara.
• Introduced into: Germany.