Consortium of Intermountain Herbaria

Plantaginaceae
	VPAP Resources JANAS 32(1) PLANT: Annual or perennial herbs, acaulescent or short-stemmed. LEAVES: spirally arranged, usually all basal, estipulate, the venation parallel. INFLORESCENCE: pedunculate, bracteate spikes. FLOWERS: sympetalous, regular, perfect or imperfect; sepals 4, distinct and overlapping; corolla scarious, 4-lobed; stamens 4, adnate to corolla, alternating with the lobes; ovary superior, of 2 fused carpels, with 2 locules, the placentation axile; style 1; stigma 2-lobed. FRUIT: a circumscissile capsule with 2-many seeds. NOTES: Approximately 3 genera and 255 spp. (almost all in Plantago), cosmopolitan, some world-wide weeds. REFERENCES: Huisinga, Kristin D. and Tina J. Ayers. 1999. Plantaginaceae. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. 32(1).
Species within checklist: Spring Garden Community Garden Checklist \|\| << 101 - 150 taxa >> Callitriche heterophylla Callitriche intermedia Images not available Callitriche japonica Images not available Callitriche lenisulca Callitriche longipedunculata Callitriche marginata Callitriche nuttallii Callitriche occidentalis Callitriche palustris Callitriche pedunculosa Callitriche peploides Callitriche platycarpa Callitriche sepulta Callitriche stagnalis Callitriche stenoptera Images not available Callitriche terrestris Callitriche trochlearis Callitriche truncata Images not available Campylanthus salsoloides Chaenorhinum calycinum Images not available Chaenorhinum exile Chaenorhinum glareosum Chaenorhinum idaeum Images not available Chaenorhinum litorale Images not available Chaenorhinum minus Chaenorhinum origanifolium Chaenorhinum rupestre Images not available Chelone chlorantha Chelone cuthbertii Chelone filiformis Images not available Chelone glabra Chelone grimesii Chelone latifolia Chelone lyonii Chelone montana Chelone obliqua Chelone rubicunda Images not available Chionophila jamesii Chionophila tweedyi Collinsia antonina Collinsia arvensis Collinsia austromontana Images not available Collinsia bartsiaefolia Collinsia bartsiifolia Collinsia bicolor Collinsia brachysiphon Images not available Collinsia breviflora Images not available Collinsia bruceae Collinsia callosa Collinsia childii