| May 14, 2012
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Southeastern New Hampshire
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I had given up ever finding Narrowleaf Plantain. Fortunately, the enormously tall
flower stems were up and some of them in flower to make identification a little
more certain. I was thrown off in identification by a couple of the misshapen
flower spikes as seen in some of the pictures below (where it looks like three
flower spikes are fused together).
There are more Plantago species in New England than I was aware of (12!).
In addition to the distinctive basal lanceolate to narrowly-elliptical leaves and
the very tall flower stem, one picture flower shows the flower corolla being between
1.5 - 2.5 mm long and a close image shows the sepals being cililate at the tip.
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