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Plantago eriopoda
Also called Alkali Plantain, Red Woolly Plantain, Saline Plantain, Redwood Plantain
Redwool plantain (Plantago eriopoda) is a small perennial herb of western and central North America that forms a clump of lance-shaped leaves and erect flower spikes. It suits moist to wet, sometimes alkaline or saline soils, and it is grown mainly in gardens and restorations rather than as a common ornamental.
Plantago eriopoda is a species of plantain known by the common name redwool plantain. It is native to much of western and central North America from Alaska to the southwestern United States to the Great Lakes region, where it can be found in moist and wet habitat types, sometimes in alkaline soils. It is a perennial herb producing a clump of lance-shaped to narrow oval leaves up to 25 centimeters long. The leaves may have slightly toothed edges and often have a coating of woolly red hairs near their bases. The stemlike inflorescences grow erect to a maximum height near half a meter. Atop the peduncle of the inflorescence is a dense cylindrical spike of many tiny flowers. Each flower has a whitish corolla with four lobes each about a millimeter long accompanied by sepals covered with small bracts.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Plantago eriopoda 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.
