Plantago sempervirens

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Plantago sempervirens, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli — fig. b Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174001602

Plantago sempervirens, photographed by Josep Gesti — fig. c Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 156618334

Plantago sempervirens, photographed by David Delon — fig. d David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139071108

Plantago sempervirens, photographed by Quentin Groom — fig. e Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 134663404

Plantago sempervirens, photographed by Julien Renoult — fig. f Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35061841

Plantago sempervirens, photographed by Daniel Cahen — fig. g Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 20142249

Plantago sempervirens, photographed by Fabien Piednoir — fig. h Fabien Piednoir, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 11370029

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession: US 203128
Filed as: Plantago sempervirens Crantz
Det. by: Shipunov, Alexey
Collected: C. H. Flahault 1884-05-03
Origin: FR
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 8 botanical countries

Native distribution of Plantago sempervirens, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Bulgaria	BUL	EUROPE
Corse	COR
France	FRA
Italy	ITA
Portugal	POR
Romania	ROM
Spain	SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe	TUE

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 511 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-5.1 °C	0.1 °C	3.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	21.3 °C	27.9 °C	31.9 °C
Annual rainfall	432 mm	687 mm	1,396 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	47 mm	102 mm	218 mm

It is found where winters bring hard 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 511 research-grade observations of Plantago sempervirens 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 18 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 adspersa Bernh.
Plantago bullata Donn
Plantago crassa Willd.
Plantago crassifolia Roth
Plantago crispa Savi ex Decne.
Plantago crispa Jacq.
Plantago cynops var. longepedunculata Sennen
Plantago genevensis (Mirb.) Poir.
Plantago repens Samp.
Plantago sempervirens var. barraui O.Bolòs & Vigo
Plantago suffruticosa Lam.
Plantago supina Schinz & Thell.
Psyllium genevense Mirb.
Psyllium majus Ratier
Psyllium sempervirens (Crantz) Soják
Psyllium suffruticosum (Lam.) Dum.Cours.
Psyllium suffruticosum J.St.-Hil.
Psyllium supinum Garsault

Sourcesevery claim on this page

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