Plantago media, Hoary Plantain
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Plantago media grows in damp grassy meadows up to an altitude of 2000 m. A slender stalk of between 5 to 50 cm develops from a basal rosette of finely-haired leaf. Delicate pink-white flowers are borne between May and September. P. media is hermaphrodite (the flowers have both male and female organs) and is pollinated by wind or insects, particularly bees. It is in flower from June to August, and the seeds ripen from August to September.
Note als the Briza media (Quaking Grass), a perennial grass that forms dense tufts of narrow linear blue-green leaves. The flowers are held well above the foliage, are green with tinges of dark purple, and then mature to straw-coloured seed heads.
Other names
DK Dunet vejbred
UK Hoary Plantain, Lamb's-Tongue Plantain
D Mittlerer Wegerich,
Mittleren Wegerich, Weide-Wegerich -
S Rödkämpar, Kämpegroblad
NO Dunkjempe
FI Soikkoratamo
F Plantain moyen, Plantain intermédiaire
PL Babka srednia, Babka srednia
NL Ruige weegbree
IT Piantaggine pelosa
ESP Llantén mediano
EST keskmine teeleht
HU Közepes útifu, Réti útifu
CZ jitrocel prostrední