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White Man's Foot: Broadleaf Plantain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Larry W. Mitich*
Affiliation:
Bot. Dep., Univ. Calif., Davis, CA 95616

Extract

Plantain, which weary toilers dig from their lawns, hoe from their gardens, or cultivate from their fields was brought to the United States to serve man. Originally considered a valuable medicinal herb and an edible green, it was grown in monastery gardens and was cultivated in botanic gardens. It still is raised as a crop for bird feed.

Type
Intriguing World of Weeds
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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