Plantago maritima
 
Seaside Plantain

Leaf Cross Section

Nitenai Salt Marsh
30-June-2016

Note the leaves are thick and fleshy.

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Maritima: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species. 
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plants perennial

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plants with all leaves basal; NOT [plants with stem leaves opposite or whorled]

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plants not densely woolly; NOT [plants densely white silky-woolly]

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leaves linear; NOT [leaves lanceolate to ovate]

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leaves thick, fleshy; NOT  [leaves thread-like, not fleshy]

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leaves all entire, or distantly and shallowly toothed; NOT [leaves coarsely toothed to pinnately lobed]

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flower spike not long-pubescent;  NOT [flower spike densely long-pubescent]

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flowers pubescent; NOT [flowers glabrous]

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corolla-tube pubescent externally

 

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Plantaginaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  leading to this family. 
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herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]

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plants green or with some chlorophyll; NOT [plants parasitic or saprophytic, without chlorophyll]

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leaves all basal

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flowers on long spikes; NOT [flowers in heads or in form resembling a head]

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flowers inconspicuous; NOT [flowers brightly colored]

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flowers with two floral rings, but with the petals wholly or partly united forming a tube or bell