Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Plantago hispida
Hairy Plantain
Plantaginaceae
Open forest, rock crevices, shallow soils, and mossy soil on rock outcrops. Often near the sea. Widespread.
Perennial herb to about 0.35 m high, with a persistent and often stout taproot. Flower stalks mostly to 0.3 m long, hairy. Leaves in a basal rosette, mostly 4–9 cm long, 3–15 mm wide, usually hairy, with 1-5 longitudinal veins, margins toothed or almost entire, tips usually blunt. Short white or pale-brown hairs in the axils. Flowers tubular, the tube 1.5–2.5 mm long, with 4 lobes 1.3–1.5 mm long, spreading or turned back. Sepals 2.2–3 mm long. Sepal-like bracts just beneath the flowers 1–3 mm long, with a hairy keel. Flower spike mostly 10–60 mm long, the flowers usually close together. Flowering: Sep.–Mar.
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~hispida (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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