Water Plantain (Alisma)
Water plants, of which two are fitted for growing with hardy aquatics. A. Plantago is rather stately in habit, having tall panicles of pretty pink flowers. When once planted it sows itself freely, often becoming a weed.
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Water plantain is a striking plant for shallow water at a pond edge or in a very boggy site.
The Water Plantain, though its name suggests a similarity, is in fact widely different to the Plantago species, and belongs to another natural order, Alismaceae.
Family: Water Plantain (Alismataceae)
Flowering: June
Field Marks: This is one of the species of arrow-heads that lacks the pointed basal lobes of the leaves. The stalks of the fruiting heads are recurved.
Genus Alisma, water plantain
Taxonomic Serial Number: 38894
Much controversy surrounds the treatment of Alisma in North America.
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The name plantain is also used for a starchy form of the ; the water plantain, Alisma plantago-aquatica, is another unrelated species. Plantains are classified in the division , class Magnoliopsida, order Plantaginales, family Plantaginaceae.
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 See also: Plantain, Arrowhead, Alisma plantago-aquatica, May, Green
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