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Plantago lanceolata (narrowleaf plantain; ribgrass; buckhorn plantain; lanceleaf Indianwheat; English plantain; lanceleaf plantain; ribwort)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Plantago lanceolata is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. It is known by the common names English plantain, narrowleaf plantain, ribwort plantain, ribleaf and lamb's tongue. It is a common weed of cultivated land.
View Wikipedia Record: Plantago lanceolata

Infraspecies

Plantago lanceolata unranked
Plantago lanceolata var. altissima
Plantago lanceolata var. eurhiza
Plantago lanceolata var. lanceolata
Plantago lanceolata var. lanuginosa
Plantago lanceolata var. minor

Attributes

Dispersal Mode [3]  Anemochory
Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Wind, Flies, Beetles
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [1]  A good fibre is obtained from the leaves; A mucilage from the seed coats is used as a fabric stiffener; It is obtained by macerating the seed in hot water; Gold and brown dyes are obtained from the whole plant;
Height [1]  18 inches (0.45 m)
Width [1]  8 inches (0.2 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist
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Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Cheilosia longula[6]
Platycheirus clypeatus[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Diaporthe subordinaria[8]
Mollisia plantaginis[8]
Podosphaera plantaginis[8]
Ramularia rhabdospora[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Paula S, Arianoutsou M, Kazanis D, Tavsanoglu Ç, Lloret F, Buhk C, Ojeda F, Luna B, Moreno JM, Rodrigo A, Espelta JM, Palacio S, Fernández-Santos B, Fernandes PM, and Pausas JG. 2009. Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin. Ecology 90: 1420.
Paula S. & Pausas J.G. 2013. BROT: a plant trait database for Mediterranean Basin species. Version 2013.06.
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Ecology of Commanster
♦ 7HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 10New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 11Dama dama, George A. Feldhamer, Kelly C. Farris-Renner, and Celeste M. Barker, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 317, pp. 1-8 (1988)
♦ 12Diet and habitat of the huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) in Bernardo O’ Higgins National Park, Chile, Jasper van Winden, MSc-thesis, April 2006, Utrecht University
♦ 13Predicting seasonal diet in the yellow-bellied marmot: success and failure for the linear programming model, G.P. Edwards, Oecologia (1997) 112:320-330
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0