Maritima: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species. 

	plants perennial
	plants with all leaves basal; NOT [plants with stem leaves opposite or whorled]
	plants not densely woolly; NOT [plants densely white silky-woolly]
	leaves linear; NOT [leaves lanceolate to ovate]
	leaves thick, fleshy; NOT  [leaves thread-like, not fleshy]
	leaves all entire, or distantly and shallowly toothed; NOT [leaves coarsely toothed to pinnately lobed]
	flower spike not long-pubescent;  NOT [flower spike densely long-pubescent]
	flowers pubescent; NOT [flowers glabrous]
	corolla-tube pubescent externally

Plantaginaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  leading to this family. 

	herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]
	plants green or with some chlorophyll; NOT [plants parasitic or saprophytic, without chlorophyll]
	leaves all basal
	flowers on long spikes; NOT [flowers in heads or in form resembling a head]
	flowers inconspicuous; NOT [flowers brightly colored]
	flowers with two floral rings, but with the petals wholly or partly united forming a tube or bell