Plantain family : PLANTAGINACEAE (ASTERIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Antirrhinum majus Snapdragon Sydney, August 2006	Callitriche muelleri Round Starwort Morwell Park, December 1991	Callitriche stagnalis Water Starwort Morwell Park, December 1990	Digitalis purpurea Foxglove Lidcombe, November 2006
Gratiola peruviana Austral Brooklime Sydney, April 2009	Hebe bollonsii Bollon's Hebe Sydney, February 2007	Hebe hybrid Wiri Grace? Sydney, February 2007	Penstemon hybrid 'Judith' Judith's Beard-tongue Sydney, February 2007
Plantago coronopus Buck’s-horn Plantain Morwell Park, January 1992	Plantago lanceolata Ribwort Plantain Sydney, August 2006	Plantago major Greater Plantain Morwell Park, December 1990	Plantago varia Variable Plantain Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens

Russelia juncea Coral Fuchsia Wyee, September 2006

Stemodia florulenta Bluerod Kulamarina, South Australia Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens

Caterpillars of some Australian Butterflies and Moths favour species in PLANTAGINACEAE for their foodplant, including:

Candalides heathi	Junonia orithya	Junonia villida	Chrysolarentia insulsata	Chrysolarentia lucidulata	Scopula rubraria
Sphenarches anisodactylus	Psilogramma casuarinae	Aloa marginata	Ardices glatignyi	Spodoptera exigua	Tiracola plagiata

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 11 July 2019)