Does anyone know where i can get good information on Plantago Media (Hoary Plantain)? and Inflorescence - Spear Grass after bushfires - close

Does anyone know where i can get good information on Plantago Media (Hoary Plantain)?

Im looking for as much information on Plantago Media or as it is commonly known Hoary Plantain. I cant find any decent sources and would prefer some biological information. I'd be really greatful for some help. All i can find is its scientific classification and thats about it, can not find any real information about the plant itself.
Thanks for the first answer..any more information or sources would be brilliant..once again thanks


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Answer by Elizabeth H
Morphology and biology.


Stem is 30-50 cm tall. Plant is rough-pubescent. Rosette leaves elliptic, with 5-9 veins, slightly pointed, entire or slightly denticulate along margin, almost sedentary or located on short (1-4 cm long) petioles (less often with long petioles in shade-requiring forms), pubescent on both sides. The leaf plate is usually almost twice longer than it is wide. Flower shoot ascending, finely costate, pubescent, much longer than leaves. Inflorescence is spiciform, cylindrical, rather dense, 2-9 cm in length. Bracts are ovoid, with broad scarious margin, blunt or pointed, almost equal to calyx in length. Lobes of calyx blunt, ovoid, scarious along margin. Corolla is silvery-white or light pink with ovoid pointed lobes; its tube as long as its calyx. Staminal threads mauve, anthers lilac. Boll is two-chamber; each chamber with 1-2 seeds. Seeds are 0.7-1.25 mm wide and 2-2.75 mm long, angularly ovoid, dark brown, almost flat, rough, dimly shining and grooved on one side. Blossoming occurs in June-July, fructifying from August. One plant can produce about 2000 seeds. The Hoary Plantain is distinguished in its ability to reproduce vegetatively by lateral roots and their fragments producing buds.

try this one - www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Plantago+media

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Wilsons Promontory NP - Overnight hikes, distances, times and permits - Parks Victoria Wilsons Promontory National Park page
Telegraph Saddle Carpark to Sealers Cove Camp
(10.2 km, 3 hours)
A steady climb to Windy Saddle and then downhill through a beautiful ferny glade and forest to a boardwalk over Sealers Swamp. Check tide times to avoid a deep water crossing of Sealers Creek at high tide. The camp is 50 m on the south side of the creek.

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