Greater plantain
Plantago major L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 10 cm
- wide
- 23 cm
Plantaginaceae
Also called Broad-leaved plantain, Common plantain, Broadleaf plantain, White man's foot, White man's footprint
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. Eurasia to Arabian Pen., Macaronesia, N. & S. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3 cm to 18 cmRead from Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 6 sources
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 6 sources
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, not yet checkedOne source. Checker: NC State Extension page does not state medium: lists good drainage, occasionally wet soils, no watering need
- Flowers
- White, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- amté, snok-tail, uitsákua shipiati
- Spanish
- Cancerina euroasiática, llantén, Llantén rastrogero
- German
- Breitwegerich
- Swedish
- groblad
- Indonesian
- daun sendok
- Chinese
- 大車前草, 車前草, 田貫草
- French
- grand plantain, Plantain majeur
- Finnish
- piharatamo
- Hebrew
- לחך גדול
- Czech
- jitrocel větší
- Polish
- babka zwyczajna, Plantago maior
- Portuguese
- tanchagem, tansagem, Tanchagem-graúda
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Plantago major (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.