General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Plant Height: 6-24 inches
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Other: White to pale violet
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Groundcover
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Stolons and runners
Pollinators: Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees

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Common names
  • Robin's Fleabane
  • Robin's Plantain
  • Poor Robin's Plantain
  • Blue Spring Daisy
  • Hairy Fleabane

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Location: Western North Carolina
Date: 2015-04-27
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis
Date: 2023-10-16
The basal rosette
Location: Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis
Date: 2023-10-16
Location: Jardin des Plantes de Paris, France
Date: 06/09/2004
photo by Bouba via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.o

Date: c. 1913
illustration from Britton and Brown's 'An illustrated Flora of th
Location: Vermont
Date: 2014-06-17

Date: June
credit: John Cameron
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: April 26, 2011
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2018-05-29
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2014-03-02
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: April 26, 2011
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2014-02-28
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2014-02-28
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2014-03-20
Comments:
  • Posted by plantladylin (Sebastian, Florida - Zone 10a) on Oct 20, 2011 6:21 PM concerning plant:
    Robin's Plantain is a common perennial in most of the Eastern half of the United States and parts of Canada. It grows in a rosette form, spreading by stolons (runners) and forming colonies. The plant grows to 24 inches high and the white to pale violet flowers are borne on 12 to 18 inch soft hairy stems in early spring.

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