Plantago truncata subsp. firma

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Plantago truncata subsp. firma is a naturalized annual plant found in northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, Sacramento Valley, northern San Joaquin Valley, and San Francisco Bay Area in moist meadows and ditches at elevations below 350 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces small white to pale green flowers in dense compact spikes. Growing with delicate, fine-haired stems up to 15 centimeters tall, it has a slender, upright form. Its leaves are narrowly oblanceolate, measuring 1 to 6 centimeters long, with entire or occasionally toothed margins, tapering smoothly to the base. The plant produces two seeds approximately 1.8 millimeters long, with male and female flowers appearing on the same plant.

Habitat: Moist meadows, ditches

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: < 350 m

Bioregions: n SNF, ScV, n SnJV, SnFrB

California counties: Butte, Marin, San Joaquin, San Diego

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