Plantago majorL.

greater plantain

WFO wfo-0000486544 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY In the accuracy benchmark

Plate 1 figs. a–f

Plantago major, photographed by Randy A Nonenmacher
fig. a Randy A Nonenmacher, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205626088
Plantago major, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205530833
Plantago major, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. c Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205193354
Plantago major, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. d Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205101955
Plantago major, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. e Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205535245
Plantago major, photographed by aga_l_
fig. f aga_l_, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204878423

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,826 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 1,826 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 173 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 adriatica Campana
  • Plantago altissima Loisel.
  • Plantago angustata Schur
  • Plantago borysthenica (Rogow.) Wissjul.
  • Plantago bracteata Moench
  • Plantago compressiscapa Opiz
  • Plantago crenata Blanco
  • Plantago dentata Mazziari
  • Plantago dilatata Opiz
  • Plantago dostalii Domin
  • Plantago dregeana C.Presl
  • Plantago exaltata Hornem.
  • Plantago fonticola Kom.
  • Plantago gigas H.Lév.
  • Plantago gouanii J.F.Gmel.
  • Plantago gracilis Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Plantago humifusa Bernh. ex Rchb.
  • Plantago intermedia Gilib.
  • Plantago japonica Franch. & Sav.
  • Plantago japonica f. polystachya Makino
  • Plantago jehohlensis Koidz.
  • Plantago laciniosa Domin
  • Plantago latifolia L.
  • Plantago latifolia Salisb.

and 149 more.

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.