Semi-desert, foothills. Openings, canyons. Spring to early summer.
Corona Arch Trail, Utah, April 13, 2005.

This is a very common, very small, very cute plant.  Leaves are quite hairy and flowers are white, quite small, and densely packed together.   Woolly Plantain's presence is often indicative of overgrazed and barren soils.

Linnaeus named this genus in 1753 and Nicolaus Jacquin named the species in the late 1700s from a specimen collected in Patagonia.

"Planta", Latin for the "sole of the foot", refers to the leaf shape of some Plantains.  Plantago patagonica is common not only in the Western United States but also in Argentina and Chile.

Semi-desert, foothills. Openings, canyons. Spring to early summer.
Corona Arch Trail, Utah, April 13, 2005.

Flowers are open on the bottom third of the stalk.

Semi-desert, foothills. Openings, canyons. Spring to early summer.
Corona Arch Trail, Utah, April 13, 2005.