392 PLANT AGIN AGE AE (PLANTAIN FAMILY) 



Means of control 



In lawns these weeds can be destroyed without much deface- 

 ment of the sward by treating them with carbolic acid. Stab each 

 plant in the center, down to the fibrous cluster of roots, with a stout 

 dibble or skewer stick, and squirt in a few drops of the acid with a 

 common machine oil-can. Or the plants may be cut out with a 

 spud. The best time for either operation is in dry weather, just 

 before the spikes appear. In cultivated crops Plantains are not 

 very troublesome, as the needed tillage destroys them. 



RED-STEM PLANTAIN 

 Plantdgo Rugelii, Dene. 



Other English names: Pale Plantain, Rugel's Plantain. 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom : June to September. 



Seed-time: July to October. 



Range : Maine and Ontario to North Dakota, southward to Florida 



and Texas ; locally established farther west. 

 Habitat : Yards and shaded lawns, open woods, and waste places. 



A near relative of the Common Plantain, often growing in its 

 company. Leaves similar in form but larger, thinner, pale green, 

 with rather long, slender petioles, crimson at the base. Spikes very 

 slender, sometimes twenty inches in length, not crowded, tapering 

 to a thin point at the summit, and crimson at the base. Flowers 

 similar to those of the preceding species but larger, the green 

 calyx-lobes sharply keeled. Capsule oblong, nearly cylindric, 

 the pyxis opening near the base, within the calyx ; seeds four to 

 nine, larger than those of the Common Plantain and more difficult 

 of separation from clover and grass seed. 



Means of control the same as for the Common Plantain. 



NARROW-LEAVED PLANTAIN 

 Plantdgo lanceoldta, L. 



Other English names: Rib Grass, Ribwort, Ripple Grass, English 



Plantain, Black Plantain, Buckhorn. 

 Introduced. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 

 Time of bloom : April to October. 

 Seed-time : May to November. 



