Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Plantago myosuros subsp. myosuros
Common name
Mouse Plantain
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, grassland, and gardens. Coast, ranges, and the easten edge of the tablelands.
Notes
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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