Botanical name

Plantago lanceolata *

Family

Plantaginaceae

Common Name

Ribwort Plantain
Plantago lanceolata *
Plantago lanceolata *
Plantago lanceolata *
Plantago lanceolata *
Plantago lanceolata *
Plantago lanceolata *

Description

Thinly hairy, tufted perennial up to 60cm. Leaves oblanceolate, ribbed, sometimes woolly in axils; flowers in dense, cylindric spikes on grooved peduncles (flower stalks), whitish, bracts long-acuminate.

Habitat

Weed of waste, disturbed places

Flower Date

Mainly October to March