Seaside Plantain

Plantago maritima var. juncoides

Found in salt marshes. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you

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Native to Virginia. How scores work Is it native here?

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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source

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Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

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Recorded in 1 Virginia county.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Brackish marsh at a woodland edge. Shown: Fort Fisher, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Fort Fisher brackish marsh and woodland edge, ncwetlands.org, undated. CC0 1.0. Source record.

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Ecological relationships

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62CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including VA

Genus host records with ranges including VA · Plantago

Anagrapha falciferaCelery Looper Moth
Anicla infectaGreen Cutworm Moth
Apantesis annaAnna Tiger Moth
Apantesis argeArge Tiger Moth
Apantesis figurataFigured Tiger Moth
Apantesis naisNais Tiger Moth
Apantesis partheniceParthenice Tiger Moth
Apantesis phalerataHarnessed Moth
Apantesis virgoVirgin Tiger Moth
Apantesis virgunculaLittle Tiger Moth

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Apantesis vittataBanded Tiger Moth
Autographa precationisCommon Looper Moth
Chlosyne nycteisSilvery Checkerspot
Dypterygia rozmaniAmerican Bird's-Wing
Dysstroma truncataMarbled Carpet
Estigmene acreaSalt Marsh Moth, Acrea Moth
Euphydryas phaetonThe Baltimore, The Black Checker
Euptoieta claudiaVariegated Fritillary, (?)Gulf Fritillary
Feltia jaculiferaDingy Cutworm
Feltia subterraneaSubterranean Dart, Granulate Cutworm
Herpetogramma pertextalisBold-Feathered Grass Moth
Hyalophora cecropiaCecropia Silkmoth, Cecropia Moth
Hyles lineataWhite-Lined Sphinx
Hypercompe scriboniaGiant Leopard Moth, Great Leopard Moth
Hyphantria cuneaFall Webworm
Hyppa xylinoidesCommon Hyppa
Junonia coeniaCommon Buckeye
Lacinipolia olivaceaOlive Arches, Olive Groundcat
Lacinipolia renigeraBristly Ground Cat, Bristly Cutworm Moth, Kidney Spotted "Mamestra"
Lithophane bethuneiBethune's Pinion
Megalographa bilobaBilobed Looper Moth
Melanchra adjunctaHitched Arches
Melanchra pictaPainted Arches, Zebra Caterpillar Moth
Neodactria caliginosellusCorn Webworm, Corn Root Webworm, Sooty Crambus
Orgyia leucostigmaWhite-Marked Tussock Moth
Orthodes cynicaCynical Quaker, Cynical Groundcat
Orthodes majusculaRustic Quaker, Rustic Groundcat
Palthis angulalisDark-Spotted Palthis
Papaipema nebrisStalk Borer
Phlogophora periculosaBrown Angle Shades
Phyciodes tharosPearl Crescent, Crescentspot
Pseudorthodes vecorsSmall Brown Quaker, Small Brown Groundcat
Pyrausta subsequalisMottled Pyrausta
Pyrrharctia isabellaIsabella Tiger Moth, Banded Woolybear
Spaelotis clandestinaClandestine Dart, W-Marked Cutworm
Spilosoma congruaAgreeable Tiger Moth
Spilosoma dubiaDubious Tiger Moth
Spilosoma latipennisPink-Legged Tiger Moth
Spilosoma virginicaVirginian Tiger Moth, Yellow Woolybear Moth, Yellow Bear
Spiramater lutraDarling Mamestra, Splashed Arches, Otter Spiramater, Otter Arches
Spodoptera frugiperdaFall Armyworm Moth
Spodoptera ornithogalliYellow-Striped Armyworm Moth, Cotton Cutworm
Tricholita signataSignate Quaker, Signate Groundcat
Trichoplusia niNi Moth, Cabbage Looper Moth
Trichopolia oviducaRuddy Quaker
Vanessa carduiPainted Lady, Cosmopolite
Virbia aurantiacaOrange Virbia, Orange Holomelina
Virbia laetaJoyful Virbia, Joyful Holomelina
Xestia c-nigrumSpotted Cut-Worm, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Lesser Black-letter Dart
Xestia dolosaGreater Black-Letter Dart, Greater Spotted Cutworm
Xestia normanianusNorman's Dart
Herpetogramma aquilonalis

Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)

5BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Plantago

Individual names are not available yet.

Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0

0Specialist beesPollen specialists

9BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

Recorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim · Plantago

Alectoris chukarChukar
Anser caerulescensSnow Goose
Branta canadensisCanada Goose
Callipepla californicaCalifornia Quail
Meleagris gallopavoWild Turkey
Melozone crissalisCalifornia Towhee
Pipilo maculatusSpotted Towhee
Pooecetes gramineusVesper Sparrow
Spizella breweriBrewer's Sparrow

Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)

Direct food only: birds recorded eating this genus across North America. Caterpillars on host plants also feed nesting birds. NC Native Plant Society: butterfly gardening

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: Family not recorded

Conservation status

Virginia rank	S1
Global rank	Not available
VA status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

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