Plantago turrifera

Annual with taproot and numerous adventitious roots. Leaves rosetted, narrow-elliptic, 4–10 cm long, 8–25 mm wide, obtuse, pubescent, 3–5-veined, margins usually obscurely and irregularly toothed; petiole indistinct. Spike cylindric, mostly 5–10 cm long, somewhat loose; peduncles 8–30 cm long, pubescent; bracts ovate to elliptic, 1.5–2 mm long, obtuse, margins ciliate, keel pubescent. Sepals elliptic, 1.8–2 mm long, sub-equal; corolla-tube 1.5–2 mm long, lobes 0.6–1.8 mm long, spreading or reflexed; anthers 0.3–0.6 mm long, exserted. Capsule ovoid, 3–3.4 mm long, with a truncate, obscurely 4-lobed cylindric beak at apex; seeds 1–5, brownish, lower 4 seeds elliptic, 1.2–1.8 mm long, apical seed smaller, irregular, contained in beak. Flowers Aug.–Nov.