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Plantago coronopus
Also called Buck's Horn Plantain, Cut Leaved Plantain, Minutina
Buckhorn plantain (Plantago coronopus) is a low basal-rosette herb, annual to short-lived perennial, native to coastal Eurasia and North Africa and grown as a salad leaf. It is grown in full sun and sandy, well-drained soil, and it tolerates salt and frost.
Plantago coronopus, the buck's-horn plantain, is a herbaceous annual to perennial flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. Other common names in the US and Italy include minutina and erba stella.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Plantago coronopus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
