Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Plantago gaudichaudii
Common name
Narrow plantain
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Forest, grassland, woodland, and disturbed sites. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb with a long, thick fleshy taproot and adventitious roots, sometimes extensively colony-forming. Flower stalks to 0.3 m long, hairy. Leaves in a basal rosette, mostly 7–20 cm long, hairy to hairless, 2–22 mm wide, with 3 longitudinal veins, margins entire or with a few blunt teeth, tips pointed. Red-brown or golden-brown hairs at the bases of the leaves. Flowers tubular, the tube 2–4 mm long, with 4 lobes 1.4–2.3 mm long, spreading or turned back. Sepals 2.8–3.5 mm long. Sepal-like bracts just beneath the flowers 1.5–4.5 mm long. Flower spikes mostly 40–120 mm long, mostly up to 200 mm long in seed. Flowering: mostly September–April
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Plantago~gaudichaudii (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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