Scientific name: Plantago coronopus L.
Common name: Buck's-horn Plantain
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 20 cm high.
Stems: Erect, cylindrical and unridged, about as long as leaves.
Leaves: Hairy, spreading, vary variable in shape, with basal rosettes of undivided, deeply and finely divided or toothed leaves.
Flowers: Actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, small, in dense spikes 1-4 cm long; sepals 4, free or slightly united at the base, membranous, with green or brown midrib; petals 4, membranous, united to form a short tube with 4 spreading and triangular lobes, whitish or brownish; stamens 4, on long and usually white filaments, anthers yellow; ovary 4-celled, superior.
Fruits: A capsule with 2-4 light brown, usually short-winged seeds about 1 mm long.
Habitat: In a wide variety of habitats near the sea, rare inland.Distribution: Occasional to frequent.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No