Plantago

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Plantaginaceae

• Scientific Name

  Plantago

• Description

  
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  Genus Description - Perennial herbs, with very short or contracted stems, borne from a stout rootstock. Leaves in a basal rosette; blades usually decurrent into a sheathing base or petiolate. Inflorescence spicate. Calyx with equal lobes or 2 of them longer; corolla trumpet-shaped, with spreading or reflexed lobes; stamens 4 or 2, exserted. Fruit a membranous circumscissile capsule, with numerous tiny seeds.