Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Leaves - tea, Roots, Vegetable
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It has a short, stout rootstock. It has a ring of leaves near the ground. The leaves are ribbed. They are soft and oval shaped. The leaves narrow into the stalks. The leaf stalks are fairly long and have wings. The leaves can be 30 cm long by 15 cm wide. The leaves have 5-9 easy to see veins running along them. The flower stem is leafless and as long as or shorter than the leaves. The flowers are in a dense spike. This can be as long as or longer than its stem.
It is a temperate plant. It grows in damp places. It grows in wetlands. It grows mostly in cool places. In Argentina it grows below 500 m above sea level. Tasmania Herbarium. In Yunnan. In Sichuan.
Common Names: Common plantain, Broadleaf plantain, Greater plantain, Ah-gwaw-paung-ta-htaung, Akyaw-baung-tha-thaung, Babka, Baga, Bag yapragi, Balazagva, Bar preme, Belgheviz, Bolila ba lipoli, Brede weegbree, Broad-leafed plantain, Bud-gull, Centunervi, Che qian, Cheuli, Damarliot, Damar otu, Daun sejumbok, Daun sendok, Ekur anjing, Ezan lezu, Ghuzbe, Groblad, Gul, Isabgol, Isafghol, Karet, Kel-ba-an, Kesikotu, Ki arut, Kirksinirotu, Kolocier, Kolosija, Kopakopa, Kutu kiyanchi remedyu tape, Lengue pechere, Lessan-imthaur, Llanten, Llanten mayor, Luhuriya, Ma de, Mravaldzargva, Nido marto, Ominwas, Orecchie d'asino, Padaroznik, Pampina larga, Pel hewes, Pelonbas, Plantatge ample, Plantain, Planten, Podorozhnik, Pulung nyang, Rat's-tail plantain, Sangka-buwah, Sangkubah, Se-gyaw-paung-ta-htaung, Se-kyaw-gyi, Sepodi, Sinirliot, Sinirotu, Teeleht, Tharam, Tirafilo, Torraja cimarrona, Torreja cimarrona, Veliki trpotec, Wa gui, Warmi llanten, Yara otu, Yawar llanten, Yempat, Zenska bokvica
Synonyms:
Plantago asiatica L.;
Plantago depressa Willd.;
Plantago loureiri Roem. et Schult.;
Plantago crenata Blanco;
Plantago erosa Wall.;
Plantago media Blanco;