WorldFloraDB - Plantago crassifolia

Characteristics

Perennial dwarf shrub or herb, 0.09-0.40 m high. Leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, up to 260 x 10 mm, pubescent. Inflorescences in spikes up to 75 mm long; scapes up to 300 mm long; bracts short, inconspicuous, not projecting beyond flowers, apex subacute. Calyx lobes elliptical, ± 2.5 x 1.5 mm, narrowly winged, subacute. Corolla lobes deltoid, ± 1.5 x 1 mm, subacute. Flowering time all year. Fruit an ellipsoid capsule, ± 3 x 1.5 mm. Seeds boat-shaped, up to 4 per capsule, brown, 2.3 x 1.2 mm, hilum scar at centre.

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Hairy, rhizomatous perennial, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves fleshy or leathery, usually woolly in axils, linear-oblanceolate, sometimes pinnatifid. Flowers in dense, narrowly cylindrical spikes, whitish, corolla tube hairy.

Hairy, rhizomatous perennial to 30 cm. Leaves fleshy or leathery, usually woolly in axils, linear-oblanceolate, sometimes pinnatifid. Flowers in dense, narrowly cylindric spikes, whitish, corolla tube hairy.

A herb. It grows 20 cm tall.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

-

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

anemogamy

Spread

barochory

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.2

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

0.06

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

Salty or brackish waste places in Greece.

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It is a Mediterranean climate plant.

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	medicinal
Edible	leaves
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
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Optimum temperature (C°)	-
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