Taxon: Plantago major L.

Common names:

• broadleaf plantain   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• common plantain   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• greater plantain   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• large plantain   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• plantain   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• lisan al-hamal   (Source: Weeds Egypt . 1984) – Arabic
  
• grand plantain   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• plantain majeur   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Breitwegerich   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• tanchagem-maior   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• lantana-maior   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• podorožnik bol'šoj   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• llantén   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• llantén común   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• llantén major   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• groblad   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):402. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

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Distributional range:

• widely naturalized weed

• origin Eurasia

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
• Boulos, L. & M. N. El-Hadidi. 1984. The weeds of Egypt.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Cody, W. J. 1996. Flora of the Yukon Territory.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Jardín Botánico Nacional. 1998–. Flora de la República de Cuba.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Migahid, A. M. 1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3.
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(1):402.
• Porsild, A. E. & W. J. Cody. 1980. Vascular plants of continental Northwest Territories, Canada.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1979–. Flora fanerogámica del Valle de México.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

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Check other web resources for Plantago major L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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