A carefree plant. It will regrow when leaves are cut, making it an excellent cut-and-come-again salad green.
Seeds may be started indoors, although it grows so well in cold weather this hardly seems necessary. Transplant by pricking out seedlings to a prepared spot.
Ensure that temperatures are mild and all chance of frost has passed before planting out, as Erba stella is a very hardy plant.These estimates for how long Erba stella takes to sprout, grow and harvest are from real observations from real gardeners, right around the world.
Average 6 days | Min 3 days | Max 14 days (7)
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The leaves are forked at the end when mature, and look a bit like a bucks horn, leading to one of it’s names “buckshorn plantain”
In the Canary Islands, it has been used to treat kidney and urinary disorders, but there is no scientific evidence to support this use.
Buckshorn plantain, Minutina, Herba stella, Heartshorn, Star-of-the-earth
Plantago coronopus L.
Misspellings: Bucksthorn plantain