Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Plantago euryphylla
Common name
Broad Plantain
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Alpine and subalpine grassland and herbfields. Western edge of the ACT and the mountains to the west. Kosciuszko National Park and nearby. Tablelands and western edge of the ranges south of Captains Flat.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.3 m high, with fleshy adventitious roots. Leaves fleshy. Flower stalks densely hairy with rusty hairs. Leaves in a basal rosette, 3–11 cm long, 10–45 mm wide, hairy, more densely so on the lower surface, with 3-9 longitudinal veins, margins entire or with a few small teeth, tips blunt. Axils with tufts of long golden-brown hairs. Flowers tubular, the tube 1.5–2.5 mm long, with 4 lobes 0.5–1 mm long, spreading or turned down. Sepals 1.5–2.5 mm long. Sepal-like bracts just beneath the flowers 2–4 mm long. Flower spikes 10 to many-flowered, narrow cylindrical, dense, 20–120 mm long at the seeding stage. Flowering: December–March
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~euryphylla (accessed 25 January, 2021)
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