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Plantago maritima
Also called Sea plantain, Seaside Plantain, Sea Kemp, Goosetongue, Saltmarsh Plantain, Seashore Plantain
Goose tongue is a hardy perennial coastal and saltmarsh plant, growing in a dense rosette of thick, fleshy, linear leaves. It thrives in salty, open, sunny ground and is grown mainly for its edible leaves and seeds.
Plantago maritima, the sea plantain, seaside plantain or goose tongue, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. It has a subcosmopolitan distribution in temperate and Arctic regions, native to most of Europe, northwest Africa, northern and central Asia, northern North America, and southern South America.
Like samphires, the leaves of the plant are harvested to be eaten raw or cooked. The seeds are also eaten raw or cooked, and can be ground into flour.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Plantago maritima 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.
