Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Plantago turrifera
Common name
Crowned Plantain
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and grassland, in temporarily moist sites. Western Slopes.
Notes
Annual herb with a slender persistent taproot. Flower stalks to 0.3 m high, hairy. Leaves in a basal rosette, 2-10 cm long, 4-25 mm wide, with 3-5 longitudinal veins, hairy, margins toothed, the teeth sometimes obscure, tips blunt, stalks indistinct. Flowers tubular, the tube 1.5–2 mm long, with 4 lobes each 0.6–2.3 mm long, spreading or bent down. Sepals 1.8–2 mm long. Bracts 1.5–2 mm long, with a hairy keel. Flowers in cylindrical greenish or straw-coloured spikes 30–110 mm long. Flowering: mostly August–February
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Plantago~turrifera (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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