Plantain (5)

Plantago major

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.

Plantago lanceolata

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.

Plantago eriopoda

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.

Plantago patagonica

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.

Plantago tweedyi

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