Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Plantago debilis
Common name
Slender plantain, Shade plantain
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, grassy areas, and moist sites. Widespread.
Notes
Annual or perennial herb, flower stalks to 0.7 m tall, hairy, not ridged. Leaves in a basal rosette, mostly 3-15 cm long, 8-40 mm wide, hairy, thin-textured, hairy, with 3-5 longitudinal veins, margins sometimes toothed, tips usually blunt. Pale brown hairs at the bases of the leaves. Leaf stalks short and usually grade into the leaf blade. Flowers tubular, with 4 brown lobes each to 1 mm long. Sepals 1.5-2.2 mm long or rarely more. Flowers in cylindrical spikes 40-100 mm long in flower, to 300 mm long in seed. Flowers separated from each other at maturity. Flowers all year.
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~debilis (accessed 25 January, 2021)
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