Index / Search / Plantago major
§1 Plant
Plantago major L.
vernacular common plantain — species · Plantaginaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Plantaginaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Plantago
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- GL Greenland Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 346 counties across 23 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 85 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–7.3
- Root depth
- 4 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 0.3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Green
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 2,552,477
- Propagation
- seed, bare root
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 346 counties across 23 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Alaska view state ↗ 19 I ▾
- Aleutians East 02013
- Aleutians West 02016
- Anchorage 02020
- Bethel 02050
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Dillingham 02070
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Haines 02100
- Juneau 02110
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Matanuska-Susitna 02170
- Nome 02180
- Sitka 02220
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
Arizona view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 31 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Claiborne 22027
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- Washington 22117
- West Feliciana 22125
Maine view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 36 I ▾
- Big Horn 30003
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Daniels 30019
- Dawson 30021
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Golden Valley 30037
- Granite 30039
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Lincoln 30053
- Mineral 30061
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Prairie 30079
- Ravalli 30081
- Roosevelt 30085
- Rosebud 30087
- Sanders 30089
- Sheridan 30091
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Treasure 30103
- Valley 30105
- Yellowstone 30111
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 42 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Greene 36039
- Hamilton 36041
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Schuyler 36097
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 55 I ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Amherst 51009
- Augusta 51015
- Bedford 51019
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Frederick 51069
- Gloucester 51073
- Grayson 51077
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Henrico 51087
- Highland 51091
- Isle of Wight 51093
- Lancaster 51103
- Madison 51113
- Northampton 51131
- Page 51139
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Shenandoah 51171
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
West Virginia view state ↗ 7 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PLMA2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3189767 ↗Record version
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