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Plantago obconica is a tiny alpine plantain, the smallest Plantago in New Zealand, that forms low rosettes of narrow leaves in wet high-elevation bogs and seepages. It is a wild species of the New Zealand South Island and is not commonly grown in gardens, so care notes are general guidance for keeping it cool and consistently moist.
Plantago obconica is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. William Sykes described the species in 1988. It is the smallest Plantago species in New Zealand. Plants of this species of plantain are perennial with a rosette habit, with very narrow, linear, keeled leaves, and fruiting capsules with a 1-cm long funnel-like base.
Plantago obconica is a plantain that is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand, in Marlborough, Canterbury and Otago.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Plantago obconica 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.
