Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Plantago myosuros subsp. myosuros
Mouse Plantain
Plantaginaceae
Forest, woodland, grassland, and gardens. Coast, ranges, and the easten edge of the tablelands.
Introduced annual herb with a taproot. Flower stalks mostly to 0.2 m high, hairy. Leaves in a basal rosette, mostly 3–15 cm long, 2–20 mm wide, hairy to hairless, mainly on the veins, usually with 3 longitudinal veins, margins toothed, tips pointed or blunt. Leaf stalks to about 5 cm long. Flowers tubular, the tube about 1 mm long, with 4 lobes 1.6–3.3 mm long, erect. Sepals about 2 mm long, hairy, with a narrow keel. Sepal-like bracts just beneath the flowers 1.5–2.5 mm long. Flowers in dense cylindrical spikes 20–250 mm long. Flowers spring-summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Plantago~myosuros (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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