Plantaginaceae

P. lanceolata L., Sp. PL 113 (1753). Syn: P. eriophora Hoffmanns. & Link, Fl. Port. 1:423 (1809); P. lanuginosa Bastard, Essai Fl. Dép. Maine et Loire 160 (1809); P. fornicata C. Koch in Linnaea 21:712 (1848);P. byzantina C. Koch, loc. cit. (1848); P. orientalis Stapf var. lycia Stapf in Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. Kl. 50(2):93 (1885). Ic: Bonnier, Fl. Compl. Fr., Suisse et Belg. 9: t. 501 f. 2299 (1927); Ross-Craig, Draw. Brit. P1. 25: t. 3(1968).
Perennial, 7-90 cm, usually with several rosettes. Leaves 7-42 x 0.4-5 cm, lanceolate-ovate, lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, entire or irregularly den-tate, 3-5(-7)-veined, glabrous, pilose or villous, sessile or with a petiole 1/3-1 x as long as lamina. Scapes 7-85 cm, 5-sulcate, ± adpressed-hairy. Spikes 0.5-5.5(-8) cm, cylindrical, conical-cylindrical or globose, very dense. Bracts shortly caudate, acute, ± concave, glabrous or hairy, lower c. 4 mm, upper c. 3 mm. Anterior sepals 2.5-3.5 mm, broadly orbicular-ovate, connate but with their midribs separate, apex truncate, brown, glabrous; posterior 3-3.5 mm, plicate-concave, asymmetrical. Corolla lobes 1.5-2.5 mm, trigonous-ovate, lanceolate to ovate, acute or acuminate, veins inconspicuous, brownish. Anthers yellow. Capsule conical. Seeds 2.5 mm, cymbiform, shining, ferru-gineous or brown. Fl. 4-10. Sea shores, sandy beaches, meadows, marshy ground, macchie, streamsides, coppices, Pinus forest, roadsides, waste places, s.l.-3050m.
Described from Europe (S—Linn. 59.7 & 59.9, photo. No specimen in Hb. Linn.).
Almost throughout Turkey (excl. Mesopotamia), Islands. A 1(E) Edirne: Karaağaç, Turkish-Greek frontier, Tutel (ISTF 27713)! A1(A) Çanakkale: nr Kordon, Tutel (ISTF 22551)! A2(E) Istanbul: Kilyos,s.l., Tutel (ISTF 15794)! A2(A) Kocaeli: d. Gebze, Anibal Tepe, Tutel (ISTF 25485)! A3 Sakarya: shore of Sapanca G., Kuş (ISTF 27238)! A4 Ankara: 30 km from Kizil-cahamam to Gerede, 1500 m, Demiriz (ISTF 23447)! A5 Amasya: W. of
Boğazköy, Tersakan De., 18 vi 1955, Çetik! A6 Ordu: Fatsa to Aybasti, 400 m, Tobey 1334! A7 Giresun: Tamdereköy to Yavuzkemal, nr Karinca, 1500 m, D. 20702! A8 Trabzon: N. slope of Soğanlı Da. above Çaykara, 1300 m, D. 32080! A9 Kars: gorge above Kötek, 36 km from Benliahmet to Kağizman, 1500 m, D. 46672! Bl Balıkesir: d. Edremit, Akçay, Tutel (ISTF 22528)! B2 Kütahya: 32 km N. from Gediz to Kütahya, 1100 m, Demiriz (ISTF 13622)! B3 Eskişehir: above Mihalıççık, 1500 m, D. 37205! B4 Ankara: Yenişehir, 6 vii 1932, Kotte! B5 Nevşehir: 5 km from Gülşehir (Arapsun) to Nevşehir, 450 m, McNeill 386! B6 Maraş: Binboğa Da., N.E. side of Işik Da., 1900 m, D. 20040! B7 Elaziğ: Karakoçan, 1.5 km from Başyurt to Yeniköy, 1070 m, Demiriz et al. (DUF 734)! B8 Bingöl: 1 km from Yolçati to Bilaloğlu, 1570 m, Demiriz et al. (DUF 760)! B9 Kars: 9 km from Iğdir to Kars, Hewitt 320(!). B10 Ağri: d. Doğubayazit, mt. Ararat (Büyük Ağri Da.), 1830 m, D.M. Brown 509(!). Cl Muğla: Bodrum, s.l., 18 iv 1963, Regel (EGE 1806)! C2 Burdur: 1 km N. from Dirmil to Armutlu, E. of Çatak, 1200 m, Tutel et al. (ISTF 20323)! C3 Antalya: Antalya to Akseki, just beyond Manavgat, 100 m, Dudley (D. 35743)! C4 Konya: Konya to Çumra, Küçükköy, 980 m, Helbaek 2452! C5 Adana: Bürücek, 1100 m, Balls 1359! C6 Hatay: Kirikhan, 200 m, D. 27283! C9 Siirt: 9 km S. of Şirnak, 700 m, D. 42696! C10 Hakkari: 32 km from Yüksekova to Şemdinli, 1750 m, D. 45170! Is: Lesvos, Cand.; Ikaria, Rech. 4330; Rodhos, Ade.
Europe, N. Africa, Asia; adventive to N. America.