Common name:
Ribwort plantain
Family:
Scientific name:
Plantago lanceolata
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the British Isles
Height:
Up to 20 cm
Habitat:
Verges, fields, waste and disturbed ground
Flowers:
At the top of a deeply grooved stem covered by silky, appressed hairs; a dense, elongated cluster of tiny flowers with four brownish corolla lobes and long, spreading stamens topped by whitish anthers. Each flower is subtended by a small, triangular bract
Leaves:
Sparsely hairy, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, up to 20 cm long, with three or five parallel veins; in a basal rosette
Season:
April to October
Rarity:
★★★★★
