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@ryanhodnett @stefan was just checking #Plantago before posting this: https://climatejustice.social/@wavesculptor/115442846430594937

Buck's Horn Plantain
#Plantago coronopus -- "not in your grocery store" -- probably have to #growYourOwn

Why? It's one of the easiest tastier salads I've tried to grow that I can actually eat - _doesn't_ contain masses of oxalic acid, or pepper-like substances which induce joint pains and/or immediate expulsion in me like many alt-salads. It can look after itself in pretty tough circumstances, yet responds with juicy abundance to irrigation, mild sun and plenty of feed. It seeds itself but easy enough to remove from where you dont want it.

Your bonus gem for reading this here -- nowhere yet have I seen it mentioned that this plant has long-life leaf meristems, near ground level deep in the rosette, so you can quickly snip the whole rosette above them and the _existing_ leaves just continue to extend and grow, without the delay of generating new leaf buds. This also seems to supress flowering. The only other common plants I know that do this are monocots.

#kitchenGarden #allotment #balconyGarden

Camera connection still not fixed so this net pic. Had to scroll several pages to find pic that looked anything like as juicy and abundant as the 2 plants I just snipped the tops for supper salad. Most of the pics looked leggy or like dried-up road-side material. Here, long, clean, succulent-lush-green leaved rosette with its characteristic horn-like spaced teeth.

Sea Plantain (Plantago maritima)

#Plantago #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Plant #Plants #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

A photo of a patch of sea plantain. There are other plants behind it, and then some trees before a hill with a house on top of it.

Blooming Hoary Plantain (Plantago media; Mittlerer Wegerich) in a lush green meadow. The flower spike is dotted with pale pink wavy blossoms, each with fine, protruding stamens that give it a soft, feathery look. The flower stands out gently against the blurred grasses of the surrounding meadow — a subtle but beautiful wildflower of dry, nutrient-poor soils.

#wildflowers #pink #flowers #wegerich #plantago #plantain #flowerfriday

Close-up of a blooming Plantago media (English: Hoary Plantain – German: Mittlerer Wegerich) in a lush green meadow. The dense, cylindrical flower spike is dotted with pale pink to lilac blossoms, each with fine, protruding stamens that give it a soft, feathery look. The flower stands out gently against the blurred grasses of the surrounding meadow — a subtle but beautiful wildflower of dry, nutrient-poor soils.

Die #Heilpflanze #SpitzWegerich ist unsere Art des Monats im August. Sie ist an den charakteristischen Blättern in Rosetten gut zu erkennen, sehr häufig und kann bei bei Erkältung helfen.
#BunteWiese #Landau #Plantago