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Plantago maritima

Flowering Plants

Plantago maritima, commonly called sea plantain, seaside plantain or goose tongue, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. It is a herbaceous perennial forming a dense rosette of thick, fleshy, linear leaves 2 to 22 centimeters long and under 1 centimeter wide, usually with three to five veins, and bears small greenish brown flowers with brown stamens in compact spikes. It has a subcosmopolitan range across temperate and Arctic regions, native to most of Europe, northwest Africa, northern and central Asia, northern North America and southern South America, most often in strictly coastal habitats on sandy soils, though it also grows in alpine settings near mountain streams. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
System (Realm)
Marine 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 2
Scientific Name
Plantago maritima 2
Conservation Status
Least Concern 1
Sources
1. Plantago maritima (Wikipedia)
  • System/realm (stated plainly in the entity own recorded description)
    Plantago maritima, commonly called sea plantain, seaside plantain or goose tongue, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae.
  • Speciesbox infobox, conservation status parameter
    status = LC
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2. Plantago maritima (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Wikidata Q21126 (P225 taxon name)
  • Statements section, conservation status (P141)
    IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
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