Photographs: Co.Cork |
Bucks-horn Plantain Flower spikes are brownish with yellow stamens. Spikes shorter than stalks. Spreading, flat, basal rosette of leaves, more/less deeply pinnately lobed. Unridged flower stalks. Usually hairy, leaves variable in shape. Height: 10-25cm. Mainly coastal on dry sand, gravel, short turf, rocks, cliffs. Related: Sea Plantain, P. maritima. Unlobed, erect, fleshy leaves. Longer flowering spikes. |
Photographs above: Barleycove, Co.Cork. April 2007