Plantago loeflingii, L.

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

27. P. loeflingii L. , Sp. Pl. 115 (1753) .

Annual with one or several rosettes. Leaves 2-7(-10) x 0- 1-0-7 cm, linear to linearlanceolate, entire or remotely dentate, 3-veined, with sparse to dense, patent, rather stiff hairs. Scapes mostly shorter than the leaves, terete, appressed-pubescent; spikes 0-5-2-5 cm, dense. Bracts 2-5-3 mm, wider than long, glabrous. Sepals 1 - 5-2 mm, equal, almost free, suborbicular, scarious, veined only in lower I, glabrous. Corolla-tube c. 1 -5 mm, glabrous; lobes c. 1 mm, ovate-lanceolate, subacute. Stamens exserted 0-5-1 mm. Capsule c. 3 mm; seeds 2, 2-2-5 mm, very narrowly cymbiform. Waste places or sandy ground. C. & S. parts of Iberian peninsula. HsLu.