Plantago amplexicaulis

{{short description|Species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae}}

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| image = Plantago amplexicaulis kz05.jpg

| genus = Plantago

| species = amplexicaulis

| authority = Cav.{{GRIN | accessdate = 2008-04-22}}

| synonyms = Plantago lagopoides Desf.

| synonyms_ref = {{cite web

| url = http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=27862&PTRefFk=7200000

| title = Details for: Plantago amplexicaulis

| access-date = 2008-04-22

| author = Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem

| author-link = Botanical Garden in Berlin

| work = Euro+Med PlantBase

| publisher = Freie Universität Berlin

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Plantago amplexicaulis is an annual plant of the family Plantaginaceae and the genus Plantago that grows in dry sand and deserts.{{cite web

|url = http://flora.huji.ac.il/browse.asp?lang=en&action=specie&specie=PLAAMP

|title = Plantago amplexicaulis Cav.

|access-date = 2008-04-22

|author = Flora of Israel Online

|author-link = Flora of Israel Online

|publisher = The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110524074439/http://flora.huji.ac.il/browse.asp?lang=en&action=specie&specie=PLAAMP

|archive-date = 2011-05-24

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Plantago amplexicaulis is a therophyte, a type of plant that survives as seed during unfavourable conditions. In the deserts where P. amplexicaulis lives, this results in the desert suddenly bursting into bloom after a rainstorm.{{cite book

| last = Schulze

| first = E -D

|author2=Erwin Beck |author3=Klaus Müller-Hohenstein

| title = Plant Ecology

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rDo8hLWtWzgC

| date = 2005

| publisher = Springer Science+Business Media

| isbn = 3-540-20833-X

| pages = 702 pages

| chapter = Vegetation History

| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rDo8hLWtWzgC&pg=PA512

| access-date = 2008-04-22 }}