Plantago weldeniiRchb.

WFO wfo-0000487237 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Plantago weldenii, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. a Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-25 / obs. 190821616
Plantago weldenii, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116443394
Plantago weldenii, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. c Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116442183
Plantago weldenii, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. d Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115649956
Plantago weldenii, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190821566
Plantago weldenii, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. f Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116443424
Plantago weldenii, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. g Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115649998
Plantago weldenii, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. h Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190821588

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Plantago weldenii is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Sardegna, Sicilia, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaWestern SaharaCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTürkiyeAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.SiciliaTürkiye-in-Europe BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Plantago weldenii, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA

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 39 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 1.2 °C 10.9 °C 12.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.5 °C 28.7 °C 31.9 °C
Annual rainfall 384 mm 699 mm 1,049 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 2 mm 4 mm 132 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 39 research-grade observations of Plantago weldenii 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 21 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 bombycina (Decne.) Sommier & Caruana
  • Plantago commutata Guss.
  • Plantago coronopus f. weldenii (Rchb.) Pilg.
  • Plantago coronopus subsp. commutata (Guss.) Pilg.
  • Plantago coronopus subsp. purpurascens (Nyman) Pilg.
  • Plantago coronopus subsp. weldenii (Rchb.) Arcang.
  • Plantago coronopus subvar. latior Pilg.
  • Plantago coronopus subvar. scleropus (Murb.) Pilg.
  • Plantago coronopus var. aristara Pilg.
  • Plantago coronopus var. bombycina Decne.
  • Plantago coronopus var. commutata (Guss.) Bég.
  • Plantago coronopus var. eucommutata Pilg.
  • Plantago coronopus var. filiformis (K.Koch) Pamp.
  • Plantago coronopus var. scleropus Murb.
  • Plantago filiformis K.Koch
  • Plantago macrorhiza subsp. purpurascens Nyman
  • Plantago macrorhiza subsp. weldenii (Rchb.) Arcang.
  • Plantago purpurascens Willk.
  • Plantago serraria subsp. purpurascens (Nyman) Nyman
  • Plantago weldenii var. commutata (Guss.) Gamisans
  • Plantago weldenii var. purpurascens (Nyman) Gamisans

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.