Plantain (5)

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.

Flora of North America reference.

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.

Flora of North America reference.

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.

Flora of North America reference.

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.

Flora of North America reference.

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

Flora of North America reference.