Plantago mediaL.

Hoary Plantain

WFO wfo-0000486573 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Plantago media, photographed by Иван Шихалев
fig. a Иван Шихалев, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203604711
Plantago media, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. b Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204679310
Plantago media, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. c Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204163235
Plantago media, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203317035
Plantago media, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. e Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203935215
Plantago media, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. f Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203220929
Plantago media, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. g Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203938388
Plantago media, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. h Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202902077

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,802 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,802 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 31 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.

  • Arnoglossum incanum Gray
  • Arnoglossum incanum var. ramosum Gray
  • Arnoglossum incanum var. variegatum Gray
  • Plantago badali Pau
  • Plantago badalii Pau
  • Plantago bertolanii Godr.
  • Plantago brutia Ten.
  • Plantago brutia var. epirota Halácsy
  • Plantago calabrica Gaudin ex Rapin
  • Plantago concinna Salisb.
  • Plantago incana Stokes
  • Plantago latifolia Fisch.
  • Plantago media f. major Sigunov
  • Plantago media f. ovata Snarskis
  • Plantago media prol. brutia (Ten.) Rouy
  • Plantago media subsp. brutia (Ten.) Arcang.
  • Plantago media subsp. longifolia G.Mey.
  • Plantago media var. badalii (Pau) Losa
  • Plantago media var. brachystachya St.-Lag.
  • Plantago media var. brutia (Ten.) Bolzon
  • Plantago media var. dentata Rosén & Wahlenb.
  • Plantago media var. maxima Roth
  • Plantago media var. minor Roth
  • Plantago media var. monnieri (Giraudias) Rouy

and 7 more.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.