Plantago major L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Plantaginaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Perennial, glabrous or pubescent; rootstock short, thick, erect. Leaves long-petioled, mostly ovate, entire, or coarsely dentate, 2.5-25cm. long, 3-11- ribbed; scapes 0.5-9 dm. high; spike linear-cylindric, usually dense, commonly blunt, 5-25 cm. long, 6-8 mm. thick; flowers perfect, proterogynous; sepals broadly ovate to obovate, scarious margined, one-half to two-thirds as long as the obtuse or subacute, 5-16-seeded pyxis; stamens 4.
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Distribution
Roadsides and waste places, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros and New Providence : Bermuda ; United States ; West Indies ; Central and South America. Naturalized from the Old World. Gkeatee Plantain.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| United States of America North America| West Indies| Central America|