Index / Search / Plantago heterophylla
§1 Plant
Plantago heterophylla Nutt.
vernacular slender plantain — species · Plantaginaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Plantaginaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Plantago
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 222 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 222 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Clay 05021
- Cleburne 05023
- Cleveland 05025
- Craighead 05031
- Dallas 05039
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Grant 05053
- Greene 05055
- Howard 05061
- Independence 05063
- Jackson 05067
- Lee 05077
- Little River 05081
- Lonoke 05085
- Montgomery 05097
- Nevada 05099
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- Sevier 05133
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- Yell 05149
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberville 22047
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Bertie 37015
- Bladen 37017
- Camden 37029
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Chowan 37041
- Cleveland 37045
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Gates 37073
- Granville 37077
- Greene 37079
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Iredell 37097
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Nash 37127
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Pamlico 37137
- Pitt 37147
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Stanly 37167
- Tyrrell 37177
- Wake 37183
- Washington 37187
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Aiken 45003
- Allendale 45005
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Cherokee 45021
- Clarendon 45027
- Colleton 45029
- Darlington 45031
- Dillon 45033
- Dorchester 45035
- Edgefield 45037
- Florence 45041
- Georgetown 45043
- Hampton 45049
- Jasper 45053
- Kershaw 45055
- Lancaster 45057
- Lee 45061
- Lexington 45063
- Marion 45067
- McCormick 45065
- Newberry 45071
- Orangeburg 45075
- Pickens 45077
- Saluda 45081
- Spartanburg 45083
- Sumter 45085
- Williamsburg 45089
- York 45091
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Archer 48009
- Bastrop 48021
- Bee 48025
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Burnet 48053
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Dallas 48113
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Galveston 48167
- Harris 48201
- Henderson 48213
- Hopkins 48223
- Jackson 48239
- Jasper 48241
- Liberty 48291
- Llano 48299
- Marion 48315
- Martin 48317
- McLennan 48309
- Montgomery 48339
- Nueces 48355
- Polk 48373
- Red River 48387
- San Patricio 48409
- Tarrant 48439
- Travis 48453
- Walker 48471
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PLHE2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3189760 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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