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Plantago cornuti (rippleseed plantain; buckhorn plantain; broadleaf plantain; great plantain; common plantain)

Synonyms: Plantago asiatica (heterotypic); Plantago major cornuti (homotypic); Plantago major var. cornuti (homotypic)

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Late Spring
Drought Tolerance [1]  Medium
Fire Tolerance [1]  High
Frost Free Days [1]  85 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Fall
Growth Form [1]  Single Crown
Growth Period [1]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [1]  Moderate
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Bare Root, Seed
Regrowth Rate [1]  Moderate
Root Depth [1]  3.937 inches (10 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [1]  Medium
Seeds Per [1]  2552472 / lb (5627242 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Prostrate
Structure [4]  Herb
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  None
Flower Color [1]  Green
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Fruit Color [1]  Green
Height [2]  6 inches (.15 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
Water Use [1]  Moderate
Screening - Summer [1]  Dense
Screening - Winter [1]  Moderate

Protected Areas

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Bombus honshuensis[10]
Bombus pensylvanicus (bumble bee)[11]
Chloralictus versatus <Unverified Name>[11]
Oxystoglossa similis <Unverified Name>[11]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces sordidus[5]
Helicotylenchus dihystera (Steiner's spiral nematode)[8]
Mycosphaerella plantaginis[5]
Ramularia rhabdospora[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Ecology of Commanster
♦ 6DIET OF THE ENDEMIC MADEIRA LAUREL PIGEON AND FRUIT RESOURCE AVAILABILITY: A STUDY USING MICROHISTOLOGICAL ANALYSES, PAULO OLIVEIRA, PATRICIA MARRERO AND MANUEL NOGALES, The Condor 104:811–822 (2002)
♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 9Predicting seasonal diet in the yellow-bellied marmot: success and failure for the linear programming model, G.P. Edwards, Oecologia (1997) 112:320-330
♦ 10Kato, M., T. Makutani, T. Inoue, and T. Itino. 1990. Insect-flower relationship in the primary beech forest of Ashu, Kyoto: an overview of the flowering phenology and seasonal pattern of insect visits. Contr. Biol. Lab. Kyoto Univ. 27:309-375.
♦ 11Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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