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Sunlight
Partial Shade - Full Sun


3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug
Plant Type
Edible, Perennial, Weed, An extremely variable, usually robust, glabrous or pubescent herb, with short stout erect stem and numerous adventitious roots.
Lifespan
Perennial
Flower
Flowers appear April to September and are inconspicuous greenish-brown with white to purple stamens. Narrow cylindrical, dense spike of greenish flowers clustered on spikes from the center of plant and seeds form all down the flower stem.
Fruit
Capsules are split across the middle into 2 equal segments containing 6-20 brown, glossy, ridged seeds. Seeds are edible by wildlife., Capsule globose or subconic, 2-3 mm. long, 3-34-seeded.
Benefits
Attracts
Butterflies
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Taxonomy
Order
Plantaginales
Family
Plantaginaceae
Genus
Plantago