Plantago
Sign in to savePlantago is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae, commonly called plantains or fleaworts. The common name plantain is shared with the unrelated cooking plantain. Most are herbaceous plants, though a few are subshrubs growing to tall.
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Plantago is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants commonly known as plantains or fleaworts, most of which are herbaceous plants with a few subshrub varieties. Though often overlooked, these plants are noteworthy because they represent a diverse and widespread group within the Plantaginaceae family, though their common name "plantain" is sometimes confused with an entirely different cooking banana.
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Taxonomy · GBIF
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLamiales
- FamilyPlantaginaceae
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- Parent taxon
- Plantaginaceae
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- Plantago major.jpg
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Plantago is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae, commonly called plantains or fleaworts. The common name plantain is shared with the unrelated cooking plantain. Most are herbaceous plants, though a few are subshrubs growing to tall.
==Description== The leaves are sessile or have a poorly defined petiole. They have three or five parallel veins that diverge in the wider part of the leaf. Leaves are broad or narrow, depending on the species. The inflorescences are borne on stalks typically tall, and can be a short cone or a long spike, with numerous tiny wind-pollinated flowers.