Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Bucks-horn Plantain, Plantago coronopus, Adharca fia
Photographs: Co. Cork

Bucks-horn Plantain
Plantago coronopus
Adharca fia
Family: Plantaginaceae

Flowering time: May-July. Biennial. Native.

The flower spikes are brownish with yellow stamens on unridged flower stalks. Basal rosettes of leaves that can be very variable in shape, more/less deeply pinnately lobed. A usually hairy plant. Height 10-25cm.

Mainly coastal on dry sand, gravel, short turf, rocks and cliffs

Related: Sea Plantain, P. maritima. Unlobed, erect, fleshy leaves

Bucks-horn Plantain, Plantago coronopus, Adharca fia

Bucks-horn Plantain, Plantago coronopus, Adharca fia
Bucks-horn Plantain, Plantago coronopus, Adharca fia

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