Plantago arenaria, Waldst. & Kit.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 43

32. P. arenaria Waldst. & Kit. , Pl. Rar. Hung. 1: 51 (1801)

( P. ramosa Ascherson , P. psyllium L. , nom. ambig., P. indica L. , nom. illegit.).

Annual; stems up to 50(-80) cm, erect, usually with ascending, straight branches, pubescent with patent or ascending hairs, more or less minutely glandular above. Leaves 3-8 x O l-O-3(-O-4) cm, linear or linear-lanceolate, not fleshy. Peduncles 1-6 cm; spikes O-5-1 -5 cm. Lowest 2 bracts 6-10 mm, with herbaceous midrib and wide scarious margins, ovate-orbicular with linear-subulate apex, straight and suberect, with divergent lateral veins at base; upper bracts 3-5-4-5 mm, ovate-orbicular or wider than long. Sepals unequal, the anterior 3 -5-4 mm, obovate-spathulate, the posterior 3-3- 5 mm, ovate-lanceolate. Corolla-tube 3 -5-4 mm; lobes c. 2 mm, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Capsule c. 2 mm; seeds c. 2-5 mm, cymbiform, oblong-elliptical in outline. 2« = 12. Dry places. S., C. & E. Europe', a frequent casual in N. Europe and locally naturalized. Al Au Bu Co Cr Cz Ga Ge Gr Hs Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (C, W, K, E) Sa Tu [Be He Ho Rs (B)].