#Plantago

[botaniqueer]

Went to the cactus and succulent society’s annual Volunteer Park Conservatory sale and got myself some new friends! I got sea plantains (Plantago maritima), Lewisia columbiana, Gonialoe variegata (my friend sold me this! I have this species but one isn’t looking too good and I want a breeding pair), and some free Stapelia grandiflora cuttings!

I donated one of them to Chocolati and told the staff that its name is Spubsy and it will be their new coworker to replace the deceased Fatsia japonica that was formerly in that pot.

[dailybotany]

Today's plant is: Plantago maritima (seaside plantain)!

This badass little guy lives exclusively in low nutrient, saline environments — headlands, saline wetlands, and rocky berms.

Where most plants in genus Plantago have broad, flat leaves, seaside plantain has evolved very narrow, succulent leaves that can hold a lot of moisture in. This adaptation is common to plants that deal with water stress — and while it lives in wet environments, the salinity of those environments means that it has more adaptations in common with desert plants than other wetland plants.

[drhoz]

#2375 - Plantago major - Greater Plantain

Completely unrelated to the cooking bananas. THAT 'plantain' comes from the Spanish word 'plántano', which probably comes from the Carib word 'palatana', meaning banana. THIS Plaintain comes from late Middle English, via Old French, from Latin plantago, from planta ‘sole of the foot’ because of its broad prostrate leaves.

AKA broadleaf plantain, white man's footprint, and waybread. Type genus for the Plantaginaceae family.

A wind-pollinated perrenial native to Eurasia, but now found pretty much everywhere else, growing in lawn, fields, along roadsides, and compacted or disturbed soils. Some accounts say it was brought to the Americas by Puritan colonizers, and was known among some Native American peoples as "white man's footprint", because it thrived in the damaged ecosystems surrounding European settlements.

The young, tender leaves are edible raw, and the older, stringier leaves can be boiled in stews. The older plants stringness also provides pliable fibres that can be used to make small cords, fishing line, and sutures.

Some cultivars are planted as ornamentals. It's possible that was the case here - the Mill House had a very cottagecore garden.

Pohokura, North island, New Zealand

[cedar-glade]

Along the banks of a creek sandstone scour near auxier ridge in RRG.

A lot is going on in these two pictures but the right picture is my favorite out of the two. My first time seeing Plantago rugellii in person, it’s supposed to be common but P. major was often reported and noted down as P. rugellii, so im not sure if it’s rare or common. Here is the map for the toothed broad leaf plantain, the other species P. major can be lobed but the lobes are round and the leaf is usually entire. The other species in the second picture that was really cool is a riparian creeping Rubus spp. that looks like a Virginia creeper vine at first glance until you see prickles! Rubus rivularis, I only know it from one other site in Ohio along the Ohio River in Clermont(only place in Ohio known). So double wammy for sure. Below is map for P. rugellii

The first picture is a dope example of everyone's smelly favorite Smilax spp. Smilax herbacea, jacob’s step ladder/ smooth carrion vine.

[crudlynaturephotos]

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This 'weed' establishes itself quickly in gravel or between pavers, as well as on parts of our paddocks after the pigs have dug them over.

"Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy" - Matthew Evans

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Ribwort Plantain (Plantago Lanceolata)

[monikatouhou]

i really love that they're canonically friends

[summerwages]

weekend plans..

[ljsbugblog]

A small leaf-hopper; a group of insects I definitely need to appreciate more tbh.

Unknown leafhopper (Membracoidea sp.), on Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata).

[opossum-art]

Babies Blue River & Plantago Seed for the AU!fest

[cedar-glade]

More from the gravel bars and mudflats, a type of riparian ecosystem of the Little Miami pt 2

Mimulus ringens, previous post had the other common species in this, these pictures show just how much larger the peduncle is comparative.

In a patch of Korean hops lies an introduced naturalized species known as Galinsoga quadriradiata or the shaggy soldier. (on broken bar)

Phyla lanceolata, lance leaf fog fruit , If your from Ohio we call it Frog Fruit; a native species perfect for bioswale planting and riparian restoration. Great stabilizer.

^bottom pic from MN wildflower blog. via Peter M. Dziuk

in the mudflat, Plantago rugelii (fairly sure based off of red base) or the floppy red based broad leaf plantain. If you find a plantain in a mudflat, it usually is stick like or narrow leaved with really unique flower structure that is more bristly looking on average, these tend to be our natives, Heartleaf is more of a gravel scour and flat wet wood species. Much like heart leaf, rugel's also has a broadleaf compared to the rest of the wet loving species. The base of this plant were barely red and the flower morphology was very bristle like is why I think the ID is correct, plus the niche affiliation; with this said, the P. major is also a generalist and can have red when stressed by summer heat on it's petioles so it would of been better to go off of the bulb like base instead of the intuition while kabrewing on the Little Miami. The other way to tell is that the ovules stick more erect.

Alisma spp. or rather I think it's A. triviale is a common mudflat species that can take longer partial submersion but doesn't like extended turbulence. Heart leaved small flowered northern water plantain.

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[pnwnativeplants]

Alisma plantago-aquatica or water plantain is an aquatic/semi-aquatic perennial that is widely distributed the world over.

[jbird-the-manwich]

Never in my LIFE have I wanted to cross breed two cultivars this bad

[wanderrealms]

It is proving to be a bit hard to find out what to call broadleaf plantain (Plantago major) in a fantasy story:

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It's "ratamo" in Finnish and back in kindergarten we used the leaves as an emergency bandage for scraped knees and such. I'll just call it broadleaf plantain and describe the plant.