Caption: Showing their age From 2003 to 2006,
ribwort plantains (shown at right) in plots in Virginia faced an uptick in mortality rates.
(43) Favourite herbs include sow thistle,
ribwort, clover flowers, and wild lettuce, in tea, salads or stews, and lungwort (Pulmonaria spp.) for short-term use during coughs or chest infection (although cautious not to overuse herbs, she sidesteps warnings about pyrrolizidine alkaloid content precluding all internal use).
Dandelion, horsetail, melissa,
ribwort and stinging nettles are grown and harvested in Germany.
Top right, young leaves of
ribwort plantain have tough, stringy 'ribs' so need to be shredded accross the leaf.
[2.] Kolodziej B Effect of mineral fertilization on
ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata L.) yielding (in Polish).
The leaves from six different plant species were research:
Ribwort Plantain (Herba Plantaginis lanceolatae); Stinging nettle or bull nettle (Urtica dioica L.--Urticaceae); Small-leaved Lime (Tilia cordata); Strawberry (Fragariae herba); Maple (Acer palmatum); Common Polypody (Polypodium vulgare).
Roedd troed yr ir (Lotus corniculatus; bird's-foot trefoil) yn bennau melyn tlws o gwmpas, llyriad yr ais neu'r bengaled (Plantago lanceolata;
ribwort plantain) a 'fioledau fyrdd' porffor yn bentyrrau dan draed.
Snails in weeds Using a good book, collect weeds, such as water parsnip, wild sorrel, water cress, nettle tips and a little
ribwort plantain.
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Ribwort Plantain: Excel-lent for healing cuts because it contains an astringent: by placing over the wound it draws it together.
It was discovered that plants likely to suffer as nitrogen levels increase include heather, harebell, eyebright, purple moor grass, mountain fern moss and
ribwort plantain.
Recently, cultivars of English plantain (buckhorn plantain, narrow leaf plantain,
ribwort, ribgrass) have been selected for grazing in New Zealand (Stewart, 1996; Rumball et al., 1997).
