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Plantago coronopus L.
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Public Records: 7
Specimens with Barcodes: 7
Species With Barcodes: 1
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Reasons: Common through much of Europe.
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Plantago coronopus (known as buck's-horn plantain,[1] minutina or erba stella) is a herbaceous annual to perennial flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It produces a basal rosette of narrowly lance-shaped leaves up to 25 centimeters long that are toothed or deeply divided. The inflorescences grow erect to about 4 to 7 cm in height. They have dense spikes of flowers which sometimes curve.[clarification needed] Each flower has four whitish lobes each measuring about a millimeter long. Plantago coronopus mainly grows on sandy or gravelly soils close to the sea. It is native to Eurasia and North Africa but it can be found elsewhere, including the United States, Australia, and New Zealand as an introduced species.
Sometimes grown as a leaf vegetable[citation needed], mostly incorporated in salad mixes for specialty markets.[citation needed] Recently it has become popular as a frost-hardy winter crop for farmers in northern climates, and is usually grown in unheated hightunnels.[citation needed]
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- ^ "BSBI List 2007" (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
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The leaves of buck's-horn plantain have a strong resemblance to deer antlers, which explains its name. This plant cannot tolerate much competition from other plants, however it grows well under circumstances unpleasant for most plants. It tolerates certain extreme or fluctuating conditions, such as salt and wetness/dryness. Young plants are more sensitive to treading and salt, while older plants are more tolerant. Buck's-horn plantain stores the salt in its leaves, as opposed to sea lavender which excretes the salt. The plant has been cultivated for centuries as a vegetable, being particularly popular in Italy.
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De bladeren van hertshoornweegbree lijken wel wat op hertengeweien,vandaar de naam. De plant kan goed tegen zout. Hij groeit vaak op het hoogste deel van, op zeedijken of op lage zandheuveltjes bij de zee. Als de plant ouder wordt kan hij steeds beter tegen zout. Hertshoornweegbree slaat het zout op in de bladeren, terwijl zeeweegbree het uitscheidt. Italianen kweken al eeuwen hertshoornweegbree als groente.
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Canada
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Mediterranean region.
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Europe, North Africa and southwest Asia to Pakistan, naturalized elsewhere.
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