Plantain (5)
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Common Plantain
Plantago major
Family:
Plantain (Plantaginaceae)
AKA:
Broadleaf Plantain
Photo taken on:
October 14, 2006
Location:
Kebler Pass, CO
Life Zones:
Plains to montane
Habitat:
Trails, roadsides, fields
Grows to 16" with wide, thick,
basal leaves. Flowers grow in a long spike and have tiny, greenish-tan
petals. |
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English Plantain
Plantago lanceolata
Family:
Plantain (Plantaginaceae)
AKA:
Narrowleaf Plantain, Rib Grass, Buckhorn
Photo taken on:
July 10, 2009
Location:
Lily Lake Trail, GV, CO
Life Zones:
Plains to montane
Habitat:
Trails, roadsides, fields
Grows to 30" with long, narrow,
strongly veined basal leaves. The
brownish flowers are tightly clustered
with protruding white stamens. |
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Redwool Plantain
Plantago eriopoda
Family:
Plantain (Plantaginaceae)
AKA:
Alkali Plantain
Photo taken on:
July 20, 2009
Location:
Wet Mountains, Eastern CO
Life Zones:
Foothills to montane
Habitat:
Openings
Grows to 16" with basal leaves that
have red wooly hairs at their base.
Flowers are tiny, white and inconspicuous. |
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Woolly Plantain
Plantago patagonica
Family:
Plantain (Plantaginaceae)
AKA:
Pursh Plantain, Patagonian Plantain, Woolly Indianwheat
Photo taken on:
April 29, 2014
Location:
Plaza Blanca, Abiquiu, NM
Life Zones:
Foothills
Habitat:
Sandy areas, canyons
Grows to 8" tall, but usually shorter, in tufts with velvety narrow leaves.
Tiny greenish-white flowers have four petals and grow in a fuzzy, dense spike. |
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Tweedy's Plantain
Plantago tweedyi
Family:
Plantain (Plantaginaceae)
AKA:
Photo taken on:
July 8, 2016
Location:
Rainbow Lake, GV, CO
Life Zones:
Montane and subalpine
Habitat:
Moist meadows
Grows to less than 1 foot high with smooth lance-shaped
leaves. Leaves have five distinctive veins. The flower spike is up to
two inches long with tiny flowers |
Green & Brown Flowers
| White Long Clusters