Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Plantago cunninghamii
Common name
Clay Plantain
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Temporarily moist sites in woodland, shrubland, and grassland. Mainly Western Slopes. Occasionally Sydney area.
Notes
Annual or short-lived perennial herb to 0.30 m tall, with a taproot and numerous adventitious roots. Flower stalks hairy. Leaves in a basal rosette, 2-15 cm long, 2-25 mm wide, hairy, with 3 longitudinal veins, margins entire, toothed, or lobed. Flowers narrowly tubular, the tube 1.5–2 mm long, with 4 lobes 1–2 mm long, spreading or bent back. Sepals 1.5–2 mm long, white. Sepal-like bracts just beneath the flowers 1.5–1.8 mm long. Flowers in oval spikes, mostly 20–100 mm long. Flowers mostly Aug.–Nov.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Plantago~cunninghamii (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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