Broadleaf Plantain is a cool season perennial, which reproduces by seeds and forms a spreading or upright basal rosette of broadly oval leaves with fibrous roots.

The leaves are broad-oval, pubescent or smooth, and dark green. The leaves are up to 10 inches long, the margins entire or wavy, and the veins are prominent and parallel.  Plantain flowers are numerous, inconspicuous, and small. They are borne along the ends of a flowering stalk and appear like fingers or rat-tails. They grow 8 to 20 inches tall during May to September.

Broadleaf plantains occur in damp, infertile or fertile lawns throughout growing season.  They will tolerate some shade.

Part of Seneca Gardens strategy in dealing with these weeds is to encourage lawn density and health.  Should there be a need we have herbicides that we may need to use sparingly to control them.

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