Plantago erecta

Plantago erecta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Genus: Plantago
Species:
P. erecta
Binomial name
Plantago erecta
Synonyms[1]

Homotypic Synonyms

  • Plantago patagonica var. californica Greene (1894)

Heterotypic Synonyms

  • Plantago dura E.Morris (1900)
  • Plantago obversa E.Morris (1901)
  • Plantago obversa subsp. rigidior Pilg. (1937)
  • Plantago speciosa E.Morris (1901)
  • Plantago tetrantha E.Morris (1900)

Plantago erecta is a flowering plant in the plantain family, commonly known as the California plantain, foothill plantain, dot-seed plantain, English plantain, and dwarf plantain. Plantago erecta is a small, unassuming annual herb with needle-like leaves and translucent flowers clustered on a stalk. It grows in sandy, clay, or serpentine soils, on grassy slopes and flats or open woodland, found in Baja California, California and Oregon.[2] Plantago erecta is a host species for the Edith's checkerspot butterfly.[3]

  1. ^ "Plantago erecta". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  2. ^ "UC/JEPS: Jepson Manual treatment for PLANTAGO erecta". ucjeps.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  3. ^ Murphy; Launer, Ehrlich (1983). "The Role of Adult Feeding in Egg Production and Population Dynamics of the Checkerspot Butterfly Euphydryas editha". Oecologia. 56 (2): 257–263. Bibcode:1983Oecol..56..257M. doi:10.1007/bf00379699. PMID 28310203. S2CID 24394104.