#Ribwort #plantain #Plantago #lanceolata was originally native to Eurasia and North Africa, but is now found worldwide. It prefers meadows and e.g. lawns in parks. #Pollinators include butterflies. The sticky #seeds are dispersed by animals. M. Pol et al. (2024) investigated its #rootproperties as #cropcultivation perspectives.
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https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14081352

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Buck's Horn Plantain
#Plantago coronopus -- "not in your grocery store" -- probably have to #growYourOwn

Why? It's one of the easiest tastier salads I've tried to grow that I can actually eat - _doesn't_ contain masses of oxalic acid, or pepper-like substances which induce joint pains and/or immediate expulsion in me like many alt-salads. It can look after itself in pretty tough circumstances, yet responds with juicy abundance to irrigation, mild sun and plenty of feed. It seeds itself but easy enough to remove from where you dont want it.

Your bonus gem for reading this here -- nowhere yet have I seen it mentioned that this plant has long-life leaf meristems, near ground level deep in the rosette, so you can quickly snip the whole rosette above them and the _existing_ leaves just continue to extend and grow, without the delay of generating new leaf buds. This also seems to supress flowering. The only other common plants I know that do this are monocots.

#kitchenGarden #allotment #balconyGarden

Sea Plantain (Plantago maritima)

#Plantago #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Plant #Plants #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

New discovery to bulk up #gluten-free fiber supplement.

#psyllium #Plantago #DNA #genomics

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-discovery-bulk-gluten-free-fiber-supplement.html