More than a listing of plant types and general facts, Guild to Wild Foods and Useful Plants, Second Edition (Chicago Review Press, 2014) is full of fascinating folklore, personal anecdotes, and tasty ...

Field experiments with ribwort plantain in the Jena Experiment The research team focused its investigations on ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata) because its ecological interactions have already ...

Thanks to a fungus, the medicinal plant ribwort plantain gains a higher concentration of the defensive compound catalpol. The increase in catalpol gives the plant better protection against pests. In ...

Ribwort plantain (Plangato lanceolata) is known to many from pharmaceutical use. The medicinal plant of the year 2014 in Germany, which has been used in traditional medicine for centuries, has an ...

A new study conducted in collaboration with the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) shows when farmers combine alfalfa with ribwort plantain, the forage yield can be doubled ...

While walking round the garden recently on a winter 'check up' I was amazed to see the number of ribwort plantains which have appeared. This really is a population explosion. It was interesting to ...

Odor collection on ribwort plantain plants after caterpillar feeding. 19 different plantain populations, whose seeds were collected from different locations around the world, were grown in a ...