1	"Inflorescences dense, bracteate, terminal spikes or heads up to 10 cm long; leaves more or less parallel- or 1-veined, often basally concentrated; corollas scarious to white, with 3-4 lobes; corolla tubes up to 4 mm long"	Plantago
1	"Plants differing in some respects from the above, usually inflorescences more open and/or the flowers pedicellate, the leaf venation pinnate or palmate, and the corollas 5-lobed, larger, and often not white"	2
2	"Stamens 2; corollas with 4 or 5 more less equal lobes"	3
2	"Stamens 4; corollas usually with 5 lobes, usually also  2-lipped, sometimes with 3-4 lobes"	4
3	"Plants herbs; corollas 4-lobed; leaves usually alternate on the upper part of the stems but opposite below"	Veronica
3	"Plants shrubs or woody-based herbs, sometimes with spinose branches; corollas 5-lobed; all leaves alternate"	Campylanthus
4	"Corollas spurred, gibbous, or saccate"	5
4	"Corollas not spurred, gibbous, or saccate"	9
5	"Corollas spurred"	6
5	"Corollas gibbous or saccate at base"	8
6	"Corollas purplish blue or white; anthers marginally coherent in 2 pairs"	Chaenorhinum
6	"Corollas yellow; all anther marginally coherent, forming a ringlike structure"	7
7	"Anthers ciliate; capsule dehiscence circumscissile, forming a detachable lid"	Kickxia
7	"Anthers glabrous; capsule dehiscence valvate"	Nanorrhinum
8	"Corollas whitish, with yellow palates; pedicels 3-17 mm long; seeds more or less radially symmetric with 4-6winglike ridges"	Schweinfurthia
8	"Corollas pink; pedicels up to 2.5(-4) mm long; seeds with dorsal faces more or less smooth and ventral faces with a marginal ridge or wing"	Misopates
9	"Plants herbs; inflorescences open racemes; fruits capsules with numerous seeds"	Bacopa
9	"Plants subshrubs to shrubs; dense heads or spikes; fruits 2 nutlets or a single nuts, often enclosed in persistent calyces"	10
10	"Leaves glabrous; flowers blue, in heads"	Globularia
10	"Leaves pubescent; flowers white, in elongate spikes"	Poskea