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Plantago ovata (desert Indianwheat)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Plantago ovata, known by many common names including blond plantain, desert Indianwheat, blond psyllium, and ispaghul, is a medicinal plant native to Western Asia and Southern Asia. The plant can be found growing wild in the southwestern United States, where it is considered a possibly introduced species. It is a common source of psyllium seed husks, a material used as dietary fiber.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Wind
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  A mucilage found in the seed coat is sometimes used as a starch to stiffen linen;
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Casa Grande National Monument V 468 Arizona, United States
Death Valley National Park II 762125 California, Nevada, United States
Grand Canyon National Park II 1210128 Arizona, United States
Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve 5901 California, United States  
Walnut Canyon National Monument V 3386 Arizona, United States

Predators

Equus asinus (ass)[3]

Citations

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1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
3Equus asinus, Martha I. Grinder, Paul R. Krausman, and Robert S. Hoffmann, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 794, pp. 1-9 (2006)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0