Plantago lanceolata

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Ribwort Plantain

Scientific classification
Kingdom:

Plantae

(unranked):

Angiosperms

(unranked):

Eudicots

(unranked):

Asterids

Order:

Lamiales

Family:

Plantaginaceae

Genus:

Plantago

Species:

P. lanceolata
Binomial name
Plantago lanceolata
L.

Plantago lanceolata is a species of genus Plantago known by the common names English plantain,
narrowleaf plantain, ribwort plantain,[1] ribleaf, buckhorn plantain, buckhorn, and lamb's
tongue. It is a common weed of cultivated land.
The plant is a rosette-forming perennial herb, with leafless, silky, hairy flower stems (1040 cm or 3.9
15.7 in). The basal leaves are lanceolate spreading or erect, scarcely toothed with 3-5 strong parallel
veins narrowed to short petiole. Grouping leaf stalk deeply furrowed, ending in an ovoid inflorescence
of many small flowers each with a pointed bract. Each flower can produce up to two seeds. Flowers
4 mm (calyx green, corolla brownish), 4 bent back lobes with brown midribs, long white stamens.
Found in British Isles, scarce on acidic soils ( pH < 4.5). It is considered an invasive weed in North

America. It is present and widespread in the Americas and Australia as an introduced species.

Contents
1 History
2 Uses
3 Chemistry
4 References
5 External links

History
Considered to be an indicator of agriculture in pollen diagrams,
P. lanceolata has been found in western Norway from the Early
Neolithic onwards, something considered an indicator of
grazing in that area.[2]

Uses
P. lanceolata is used frequently in herbal teas and other herbal
remedies.[3] A tea from the leaves is used as a highly effective
cough medicine. In the traditional Austrian medicine Plantago
lanceolata leaves have been used internally (as syrup or tea)
or externally (fresh leaves) for treatment of disorders of the
respiratory tract, skin, insect bites, and infections.[4]

Chemistry
Plantago lanceolata (Japan)

P. lanceolata contains phenylethanoids such as acteoside

(verbascoside), cistanoside F, lavandulifolioside,
plantamajoside and isoacteoside.[5] It also contains the
iridoid glycosides aucubin and catalpol.[6]

References
1. ^ "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and
Ireland. Archived from the original (XLS) on 2015-02-25.
Retrieved 2014-10-17.
2. ^ Hjelle, K. L.; Hufthammer, A. K.; Bergsvik, K. A.
An inflorescence that has set seeds.
(2006). "Hesitant hunters: a review of the introduction
of agriculture in western Norway". Environmental
Archaeology 11 (2): 147170. doi:10.1179/174963106x123188.
3. ^ Val plantes herbal ice tea
4. ^ Vogl S, Picker P, Mihaly-Bison J et al. (October 2013). "Ethnopharmacological in vitro studies
on Austria's folk medicine--an unexplored lore in vitro anti-inflammatory activities of 71 Austrian
traditional herbal drugs". Journal of Ethnopharmacology 149 (3): 75071.
doi:10.1016/j.jep.2013.06.007. PMC 3791396. PMID 23770053.
5. ^ Phenylethanoids in the Herb of Plantago lanceolata and Inhibitory Effect on Arachidonic AcidInduced Mouse Ear Edema. Michiko Murai (nee Sasahara), Yasuhiko Tamayama and Sansei
Nishibe, Planta Med., 1995;, volume 61, issue 5, pages 479-480, doi:10.1055/s-2006-958143

6. ^ Genetic variation in defensive chemistry in Plantago lanceolata (Plantaginaceae) and its

effect on the specialist herbivore Junonia coenia (Nymphalidae). Lynn S. Adler, Johanna Schmitt
and M. Deane Bowers, Oecologia, January 1995, Volume 101, Issue 1, pages 75-85,
doi:10.1007/BF00328903

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
USDA Plants Profile
Photo gallery
Buckhorn
Ribwort

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