Common name: Large Plantain
Plantago major L. APNI* 
Description: Short-lived perennial herb, with a mostly adventitious root system; sparsely pilose or almost glabrous.
Leaves basal, lamina ovate to elliptic, mostly 4–20 cm long and 20–100 mm wide, 5–7-veined, margins with a few small blunt teeth.
Scapes to 40 cm high; spike cylindrical, mostly 8–25 cm long, compact except near the base; bracts elliptic, 2.5–3 mm long. Sepals broad-ovate, 2–2.5 mm long, glabrous; keel rounded. Corolla lobes ovate, 1.5–1.8 mm long.
Capsule subglobose to ovoid, 5–6 mm long; seeds up to 16.
Flowering: October–March
Distribution and occurrence: Grows along creek banks and seepage lines on sandy gravelly soils; widespread in coastal districts, west to Tumut area. Native of Europe and N & C Asia.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *NT, *CT, *ST, *CWS, *SWS, *LHI
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by B. G. Briggs
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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