PLANTAIN FAMILY 



reversed, the chances are that the florets would be self- 

 fertihzed and a successful weed should in the main be 

 cross-fertilized. 



Ribbed Plantain, Plantago lanceolata is quite as 

 pernicious a weed as Common Plantain and of late 

 years even more abundant. An alien, it inclines to 

 overrun meadows and pastures as well as yard and 

 roadside. Its seeds are a very common impurity 

 in commercial grass and clover seed; and so it is widely 

 distributed. The plant blooms early and blooms late, 

 each well-developed individual is credited with pro- 

 ducing during the summer a thousand seeds. 



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