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Latin (Botanical) name: Plantago major L.

Family: Plantaginaceae.

Common name: Plantain, Waraaq saboon, Masaas, Mesaasa, Lisaan el-kalb (kelb), Lisaan hamad (hamal).

Origin: Egypt

Plant description:

PLANTAGINACEAE A. Juss.

PLANTAGO L. : Flowers small, 4-fid, sessile in spikes or heads. Fruit a capsule, 2-manyseeded, opening by a lid.

Stemless with scapes arising from a leaf-rosette, or sometimes a short stem but then leaves alternate.

Leaves undivided with entire, rarely minutely dentate margin.

Bracts pale, plant keeping green. Stem and leaves thinly pilose to glabrous. Leaves broad ovate.

PLANTAGO MAJOR L. : Tall glabrous or minutely pubescent herb with broadly ovate leaves and long peduncles with narrow green spike. (Per.) Weed.

v. paludosa Bég. : Corolla-lobes acute (in type obtuse).

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds). Perennial in Upper Egypt.

Last Update March 11^th, 2002.

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