Plantago rigidaKunth

WFO wfo-0000487198 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Plantago rigida, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. a Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 195791282
Plantago rigida, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. b Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195429520
Plantago rigida, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. c Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195429664
Plantago rigida, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. d Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183995943
Plantago rigida, photographed by Sue Carnahan
fig. e Sue Carnahan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178071491
Plantago rigida, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. f Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159719969
Plantago rigida, photographed by Julia Moning
fig. g Julia Moning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172843294
Plantago rigida, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. h desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154021143

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Plantago rigida is native: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela BoliviaColombiaEcuadorPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Plantago rigida, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 661 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -3.3 °C 0.7 °C 4.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 8.9 °C 10.2 °C 14.5 °C
Annual rainfall 1,356 mm 2,132 mm 3,852 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 76 mm 298 mm 693 mm

It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 661 research-grade observations of Plantago rigida that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 4 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 rigens Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Plantago rigida var. angustior Pilg.
  • Plantago rigida var. pusilla Wedd.
  • Plantago rigidiuscula D.Dietr.

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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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