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DESCRIPTION:
Buckhorn plantain is a perennial found throughout California. Seedlings
have very long, needle-like seed leaves. Broader, pale green,
true leaves have prominent parallel veins. The mature plant,
reaching
up to 1.5 feet (45 cm) tall, is stemless. Leaves are 3 to 10
inches (8 - 25 cm) long and cluster around the base of the plant.
They taper to slender flowering stalks, 6 to 20 inches (15 -
50 cm) tall. The flowering stalks are tipped with flower spikes
that have protruding white stamens. In apples, buckhorn plantain
is a special problem because it serves
as a
host for
rosy apple
aphid.
See UC IPM's Plantains Pest
Note for more information.
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