Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Plantago palustris

Plantago palustris
Photo: Lachlan Copeland, CC BY-SA 4.0

Plantago palustris is a little-known plantain species from the Plantaginaceae family, native to New South Wales, Australia, and found in swampy habitats. It is a wetland plant that needs consistently moist ground, and it is not a common garden or houseplant.

Family
Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist to wet, as it grows naturally in swamps.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich soil or wet clay; boggy conditions suit it.
Native range
CE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Plantago palustris is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae, native to New South Wales.

It was first described in 1937 by Lilian Ross Fraser and Joyce Winifred Vickery from a specimen collected in a swamp at Barrington Tops.

Other Plantago plants

Glandular Plantain · Plantago albicans · Alpine Plantain · Plantago altissima · Plantain · Largebracted plantain · Chinese Plantain · Plantago aucklandica · Plantago bellardi · Plantago brownii · Heartleaf plantain · Plantago cornuti

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Plantago palustris 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…