Plantago lanceolataL. - English Plantain
Scientific Description:
Perennial, 7−90 cm, usually with several rosettes. Leaves 7−42 × 0.4−5 cm, lanceolate-ovate, lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, entire or irregularly dentate, 3−5(−7)-veined, glabrous, pilose or villous, sessile or with a petiole 1/3−1 × as long as lamina. Scapes 7−85 cm, 5-sulcate, ± adpressed-hairy. Spikes 0.5−5.5(−8) cm, cylindrical, conical-cylindrical or globose, very dense. Bracts shortly caudate, acute, ± concave, glabrous or hairy, lower c. 4 mm, upper c. 3 mm. Anterior sepals 2.5−3.5 mm, broadly orbicular-ovate, connate but with their midribs separate, apex truncate, brown, glabrous; posterior 3−3.5 mm, plicate-concave, asymmetrical. Corolla lobes 1.5−2.5 mm, trigonous-ovate, lanceolate to ovate, acute or acuminate, veins inconspicuous, brownish. Anthers yellow. Capsule conical. Seeds 2.5 mm, cymbiform, shining, ferrugineous or brown.
Flowering time: April−October.
Habitat: Sea shores, sandy beaches, meadows, marshy ground, macchie, streamsides, coppices, Pinus L. forest, roadsides, waste places, s.l.−3050 m.
Reference:
Tutel B (1982). Plantago lanceolata L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 513.
Public Description:
Plantago lanceolata, common name “English plantain”, distributed in Europe, including Britain, from Iceland south and east to Spain, northern and central Asia. It is a perennial herbaceous plant with a rosette leaves on the base and a spike that is composed of very small flowers on a thin stem. English plantain is used frequently in herbal teas and other herbal remedies. A tea from the leaves is used as a highly effective cough medicine.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantago_lanceolata /,Accessed date: 03.03.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.pfaf.org/user/plant.aspx?LatinName=Plantago+lanceolata /,Accessed date: 03.03.2016.
Anonymous 3 (2016). http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/weeds/plants/eng_plantain.htm /,Accessed date: 03.03.2016.
Uzunhisarcıklı EM (2012). Plantago L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 675– 677.