Plantago crassifolia Forsk.

Spice In the field Inflorescence

Family: PLANTAGINACEAE

Genus: Plantago

Catalan common name: Plantatge marí.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza. Formentera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Litoral marshes and riparian. Beaches and dunes, sandy soils. Coastal salty and humid soils.

Characteristics: Plantago crassifolia lives along the sides of brackish water, as it is a rhimotaous plant, that is it has an underground network of horizontal stems, it forms a sort of quite dense carpet. It has linear, fleshy, semicylindrical leaves, sometimes with some teeth in the margin. Sometimes it can be mistaken for specimens of Plantago coronopus perennes, but these have clearly dentate leaves. Flowers at the end of spring and summer.