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Common Plantain (Broadleaf Plantain) (Plantago major)


Identification Food & Medicinal Uses Web Page Links Online Videos References


Identification

KingdomPlantae – Plants
SubkingdomTracheobionta – Vascular plants
SuperdivisionSpermatophyta – Seed plants
DivisionMagnoliophyta – Flowering plants
ClassMagnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
SubclassAsteridae
OrderPlantaginales
FamilyPlantaginaceae – Plantain family
GenusPlantago L. – plantain
SpeciesPlantago major L. – common plantain


Food & Medicinal Uses

Web Page Links

Online Videos

References

1
Native American Ethnobotany
by Daniel E. Moerman
Timber Press, c1998
ISBN: 0881924539
2
Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to Eastern Indian Tribes
by Charlotte Erichsen-Brown
Dover Publications, c1989
ISBN: 048625951X













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