Plantago major

Short-lived perennial with many adventitious roots. Leaves rosetted, lamina ovate to elliptic, mostly 4–22 cm long and 2–12 cm wide, acute to rounded, pubescent to glabrescent, usually with 5–7 main veins, margins often with a few small blunt teeth; petiole 4–25 cm long. Spike long-cylindric, c. 8–25 cm long, dense except at base; peduncles 4–26 cm long, shortly antrorse-hairy; bracts elliptic, 2.5–3 mm long. Sepals broad-ovate to suborbicular, 2–2.5 mm long, subequal, with a rounded keel; corolla-tube 2–2.5 mm long, lobes 1.5–2 mm long, spreading or reflexed; anthers 0.7–1 mm long, exserted. Capsule ovoid to subglobose, 5–6 mm long; seeds usually 8–16, irregular and angular, to 2 mm long, dark brown. Flowers spring and summer.