Woolly Plantain Flower Woolly Plantain Plant

Wildflowers of Southern Arizona


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Woolly Plantain.
Plantago patagonica.
Plantain (Plantaginaceae) family.

The flowers are in long, slender, fuzzy, silvery green, terminal flower spikes. The individual flowers are tiny and have 4 ovate, whitish to partly translucent lobes and 4 stamens. The leaves are green, basal, narrowly linear to linear-lanceolate in shape, and densely to lightly covered in shaggy hair. The plants are completely covered in white, woolly hairs.

Sabino Canyon Recreation Area
Location: On bluff trail near entrance to canyon.
4/7/15

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