Plantago drummondii

Taprooted annual or short-lived perennial. Leaves rosetted, narrow-elliptic to -oblanceolate, mostly 4–14 cm long and 3–20 mm wide, acute to obtuse, villous-pubescent, 3-veined, margins distinctly to obscurely toothed; petiole indistinct. Spike cylindric, mostly 2–12 cm long, somewhat loose; peduncles 2–30 cm long, villous; bracts ovate, 1.5–4 mm long, obtuse, margins ciliate, keel glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Sepals elliptic to obovate, 1.8–3.5 mm long, subequal; corolla-tube 2–3 mm long, lobes 1–2.5 mm long, spreading or reflexed; anthers 0.5–0.7 mm long, exserted. Capsule ovoid to subglobose, 3–5 mm long, 2.2–3.5 mm diam., with a broadly acute apex; seeds 1–5, brownish, lower 4 seeds elliptic, 1.7–3 mm long, apical seed smaller, irregular. Flowers Jul.–Nov.