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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Plantain Family
  7. Plantain
  8. Section Gnaphaloides
  9. Heller's Plantain

species 2,038 observations

Heller's Plantain

Plantago helleri

Status
present
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

30 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Common Buckeye, Celery Looper Moth, Isabella Tiger Moth, Nais Tiger Moth 23
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Northern Plantain Flea Beetle 1
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Eastern Cottontail, Wild Turkey 2
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Margined Calligrapher, Brown-belted Bumble Bee, Common Checkered-Skipper 4

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Annual Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

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