Heart-leaved Plantain (Plantago cordata)

Synonym:

Status: endangered in Wisconsin

Habitat Description: cold, calcareous streambanks, shaded by Southern Mesic Forest

Habitat Classification
WI NHI: Embergent Aquatic surrounded by Southern Mesic Forest
Curtis: Emergent Aquatic surrounded by Southern Mesic Forest
Kotar: NA
Forest Cover: Anything shading a limey stream (Ash, Basswood, Red Oak, Sugar Maple)

Range: Brown, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Outagamie, Ozaukee, and Racine

Comments: the large heart-shaped leaves are evident only in the summer; winter leaves are small and lance or spatula-shaped; the leaves that appear in the spring and fall are intermediate in size between the summer and winter forms. Wisconsin is at north edge of range.

Phenology: flowers in the spring

Field Guides:
Britton and Brown, p.3:270/p.3:270
Gleason 1963, p.643
Gleason 1991, p.460