Flora of the Hawaiian Islands - Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Dicotyledon	Literature for Plantago major Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
Plantaginaceae -- The Plantain Family	Bibliography
*Plantago major*
Common name(s): plantain, broad-leaved plantain, common plantain, kuhekili, laukahi

General Information
Distribution	Native to Europe and northern and central Asia, now virtually cosmopolitan.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Midway, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i.	Plantaginaceae Plantago major Plantaginaceae Plantago major Plantaginaceae Plantago major Plantaginaceae Plantago major Plantaginaceae Plantago major Plantaginaceae Plantago major Plantaginaceae Plantago major Plantaginaceae Plantago major Plantaginaceae Plantago major Plantaginaceae Plantago major


Habit	Perennial herbs, roots fibrous, primarily adventitious, caudex short.
Leaves	Leaves basal, ovate to broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, 3-40 cm long, 2-12(-15) cm wide, 5-7-nerved, glabrous to sparsely pilose at least on veins, rarely moderately pilose, margins usually with a few blunt teeth, base abruptly cuneate, petioles 2-18 cm long.
Flowers	Scapes 6-40 cm long, spikes 2.5-25 cm long, glabrous to sparsely pilose, flowers relatively crowded, bracts elliptic, 2.5-3 mm long, usually glabrous; sepals subequal, distinct, ovate to suborbicular, 2-2.5 mm long, glabrous; corolla lobes spreading, lanceolate, 1.2-1.6 mm long; ovary with 6-16 ovules.
Fruit	Capsules ellipsoid to oblong-ellipsoid, (1.5-)2-3 mm long, dehiscent at or slightly below middle.
Seeds	Seeds 6-16, dark brown, irregular, ca. 1 mm long.




Chromosomes	2n = 12, 18, 24, 36