WorldFloraDB - Plantago rugelii

Characteristics

A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 7-30 cm tall. It has a taproot and produces a ring of leaves at the base. They are broadly oval with veins along them. The base of the leaf stalk is reddish. Leaves can be 35 cm long and 12-18 cm wide. The leaf stalk can be 2 cm across. The flowers are in a narrow green pike. They have 4 triangle shaped petals. They are white and folded back at the tip. The seed capsules are elongated.

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Much like no. 2 [Plantago major L.]; petiole generally glabrous and anthocyanic at base; bracts lance-attenuate; sep ovate or oblong, acute, the sharp keel much wider than the scarious margin; fr slenderly ellipsoid or narrowly ovoid, 4–6 mm, circumscissile far below the middle; seeds 4–10, 1.5–2 mm; 2n=24. Lawns, gardens, roadsides, and waste places throughout our range, w. to Mont., s. to Fla. and Tex.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	-
Foliage retention	-
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
Pollination	anemogamy
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Mature width (meter)	-
Mature height (meter)	0.1
Root system	tap-root
Rooting depth (meter)	-
Root diameter (meter)	0.3
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Nitrogen fixer	-
Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in moist soil and can tolerate some shade.

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Damp shores, roadsides and waste places.

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Usage

Young leaves can be chopped and added to salads.

Uses	animal food medicinal
Edible	leaves
Therapeutic use	Poultice (unspecified), Bite(Bug) (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
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