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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Plantago pusilla
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=1: 100. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|common_names=Dwarf plantain
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Plantago hybrida
|authority=W. P. C. Barton
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=P. pusilla var. major
|authority=Engelmann
}}
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Plantago;Plantago pusilla
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plantaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Plantago]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Plantago pusilla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 282
|treatment_page=page 291
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Annuals; roots taproots, slender. <b>Stems</b> 0–5 mm. <b>Leaves</b> 20–70 × 1–2 mm; blade linear, margins entire, sometimes toothed, veins conspicuous or not, surfaces hairy or glabrous. <b>Scapes</b> 15–60 mm, hairy, sometimes glabrous. <b>Spikes</b> greenish or brownish, 20–100 mm, loosely or densely flowered; bracts triangular-ovate, 1.5–2 mm, length 0.9–1.1 times sepals. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 1.5–2 mm; corolla radially symmetric, lobes erect, forming a beak, 0.5 mm, base obtuse; stamens 2. <b>Seeds</b> 4, 0.8–1.3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry to moist, sandy, alluvial soils.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Plantago pusilla is considered to be introduced in Oregon and Washington, and possibly in California.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Plantago pusilla
|author=
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Plantago hybrida;P. pusilla var. major
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry to moist, sandy, alluvial soils.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_702.xml
|genus=Plantago
|species=Plantago pusilla
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