Participant Info

Species

Plantago major

Family

Plantaginaceae

CommonName

common plantain, broadleaf plantain, greater plantain, white-man’s foot

Presence

YES

Status

exotic

EarliestDate

1915

LatestDate

2021

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Alamosa, Baca, Big Meadows Reservoir

Other Localities

Alamosa (town), La Botica, Del Norte

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, Rio Grande floodplain by 142 bridge in Del Norte 28 July 2021

Comments

Long present in the Watershed, this introduced plantain has been found in ruderal habitats such as reservoir edges, irrigation embankments, road sides, and residential lawns, but it has also naturalized in wet habitats from montane to subalpine. It has not been recorded from the Culebras, but has been often so in the New Mexico Cristos. It is present in every state of the USA, and follows the Rio Grande drainage to a little past the Big Bend country of Texas.

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