Plantago albicans
Plantago albicans
Belhevis
Subcaespitose perennial, 12-25 cm, with long rootstock. Branches short, densely leafy. Leaves 3.5-11 x 0.6 cm, linear-lanceolate or linear, entire, pilose-lanate. Scapes 4.5-35 cm, erect, lanate-tomentose, Spikes 1.5-7.5 cm, lax. Bracts c. 4.5 mm, elliptic to rotund, upper margin villous, strongly keeled, purple or green. Anterior sepals 3.5-4.5 mm, keel completely on one side, asymmetrical; keel side margin brown, villous. Posterior sepals 3.5-4 mm, much more concave than anterior ones; apex villous. Corolla tube 3.5-4 mm; lobes 3 mm, ovate, abruptly acuminate. Capsule conical. Ovules 2. Fl. 4-5. Dry stony places, grassy slopes, walls, vineyard margins, pathsides, s.l. - c. 825 m.
Mediterranean region. Medit. element.
