SCIENTIFIC NAME: Arnoglossum plantaginea (Cacalia plantaginea)
COMMON NAME: Prairie Indian Plantain, Tuberous Indian-plantain, Groovedstem Indian Plantain
BLOOM TIME: June, July
PLANT PROFILE:
- Member of Aster family can be up to 5 ft. tall with largest leaves at base.
- Single stem is smooth & angled with few leaves.
- Leaves are fan shaped at the top of stem.
- Flowers are tube shaped, whitish in color, numerous, & form a flat top cluster 1 in. tall.
- Native Americans applied mashed leaves to skin to treat cancer, cuts and bruises, and to draw out poisonous substances.
- Habitat: prairies, fens and marshes.
- Not common and widely scattered in Illinois.
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