394 PLANTAGINACEAE (PLANTAIN FAMILY) 
HOARY PLAINTAIN 
Plantago média, L. 
Other’ English names: Gray Ribwort, Gray Buckhorn, Woolly 
Plantain, Sweet-flowered Plantain. 
Introduced. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: May to September. 
Seed-time: June to October. 
Range: Maine to western Ontario, southward to Rhode Island and 
New York. Locally established in many of the Western States. 
Habitat: Grasslands; yards and waste places. 
A weed that is extending its range very rapidly by the agency of 
grass and clover seeds ; its rootstock is thicker and penetrates more 
deeply than that of the Rib Grass, and it is in other ways even more 
pernicious. Like that plant, its leaves are hairy, but the hairs are 
white, giving it a gray or hoary appearance; they are broadly 
oblong or elliptic, spreading near the ground in rosette form, 
smothering all other growth; petioles margined, rather short, with 
tufts of brown hair at the base. Scapes slender, one to two feet in 
length, the spikes at the summit one to three inches long, cylindric, 
densely flowered; the flowers are rather showy, with green scari- 
ous-margined calyx-lobes, four parted white corolla and four large, 
yellowish anthers dangling on purple filaments; also they are 
sweet-scented. Capsule oblong, obtuse, two- to four-seeded, the 
seeds concave on the face. 
Means of control the same as for Rib Grass. 
LARGE-BRACTED PLANTAIN 
Plantago aristata, Michx. 
Other Engish names: Western Buckhorn, Bristly Buckhorn, Western 
Ripple Grass. 
Native. Annual and winter annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: May to October. 
Seed-time: June to November. 
Range: Ontario to British Columbia and Alaska, southward to 
Louisiana, Texas, and New Mexico. Locally established in most 
of the Eastern States and becoming frequent. 
Habitat: Grass and clover fields. 
More prolific than any of the foregoing species, an average plant 
producing about three thousand seeds. The rapid widening of its 
