Japanese name: ツボミオオバコ（蕾大葉子） Scientific name:Plantago virginica
[Overview]
An annual or biennial 10–30 cm tall, found along roadsides and in vacant lots.
It has a thick, vertically extending root.
The whole plant is densely covered with curved white hairs.
All the leaves are basal, narrowly obovate, 3–10 cm long and 1–2 cm wide, with inconspicuous wavy teeth on the margin.
The leaves have parallel veins.
A spike 5–20 cm long at the tip of a long flower stalk bears small flowers densely.
The upper part of the flower stalk is densely covered with soft white hairs.
The corolla is pale yellowish brown and hardly opens.
There are 4 stamens, shorter than the corolla.
The fruit is a capsule.
