Plantago erectaE.Morris

dot-seed plantain

WFO wfo-0001094897 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Plantago erecta, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. a James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-26 / obs. 200887820
Plantago erecta, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. b James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200887422
Plantago erecta, photographed by John Hibbard
fig. c John Hibbard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192713714
Plantago erecta, photographed by Annette Herz
fig. d Annette Herz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187138858
Plantago erecta, photographed by Justin Paulin
fig. e Justin Paulin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186832636
Plantago erecta, photographed by Annette Herz
fig. f Annette Herz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187221413
Plantago erecta, photographed by Annette Herz
fig. g Annette Herz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187221388

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Flowering n = 592 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 592 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Plantago dura E.Morris
  • Plantago erecta subsp. erecta
  • Plantago obversa E.Morris
  • Plantago obversa subsp. rigidior Pilg.
  • Plantago patagonica var. californica Greene
  • Plantago speciosa E.Morris
  • Plantago tetrantha E.Morris

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.