Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Plantago alpestris
Common name
Veined Plantain
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Grassland, herbfields, stream banks, and around bogs. Alpine and subalpine areas. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Perennial herb with adventitious roots. Taproot not developed. Leaves fleshy or leathery. Flower stalks to 0.16 m high, hairy with long pale rusty hairs. Leaves in a basal rosette, 2–8 cm long, 7-25 mm wide, hairless to hairy, axils with tufts of long golden-brown hairs, leaves with 3-5 longitudinal veins, the lateral veins often indistinct, margins entire, tips pointed or blunt. Flowers tubular, the tube 1.5–1.8 mm long, with 4 lobes 1–1.2 mm long, spreading or turned down. Sepals 1.5–1.8 mm long. Sepal-like bracts just beneath the flowers 2–2.5 mm long. Flower spike with 10 to many flowers, oval to cylindrical, dense, 5–60 mm long at the seeding stage. Flowering: November–March.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Plantago~alpestris (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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