Common name:
Buckshorn plantain
Family:
Scientific name:
Plantago coronopus
Main flower color:
Range:
All along the coasts of the UK, and in southeast England
Height:
Up to 20 cm
Habitat:
Grassland, disturbed ground, rocky places, mostly coastal
Flowers:
Tiny, with inconspicuous, brownish corollas and long stamens, which have yellow-white anthers atop slender white filaments. Styles are long and feathery. Flowers are subtended by pointed bracts. The inflorescence is a compact cluster, extending no more than 4 cm at the top of the leafless, hairy stalk
Leaves:
Hairy, basal, up to 6 cm long, deeply pinnately divided into narrow, well-separated lobes, themselves sometimes lobed
Season:
May to July
Rarity:
★★★★★
