Plantago albicans, 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

24. P. albicans L. , Sp. Pl. 114 (1753) .

Subcaespitose perennial; stock with branches 1-7 cm, covered with leaf-bases and with terminal rosettes. Leaves (2-)5-15(-20) x (0-2-)0-5-0-8 cm, linear-lanceolate to almost linear, entire, often undulate, obscurely 3-veined, sericeous-lanate. Scapes about twice as long as leaves, terete, tomentose; spikes (1—)3—10 cm, dense above, usually lax or interrupted below. Bracts 3 -5-4-5 mm, ovate, shortly villous. Sepals 3-4 mm, subequal, almost free, weakly keeled to the apex, with wide scarious margins, villous at least towards apex. Corolla-tube 3-4 mm, glabrous; lobes 2-5-3-5 mm, ovate, abruptly acuminate, glabrous. Stamens exserted 4-7 mm; anthers white. Capsule c. 4 mm; seeds 2, 2-5-3 mm, cymbiform. 2« = 20,?30. Dry places. Iberian peninsula and Mediterranean region. BI Cr Ga Gr Hs It Lu Sa Si.