Broadleaf Plantain Is A Wild Edible Plant: Abundant, Easily Recognized And Highly Nutritious

Broadleaf Plantain

Plantago Major

Edible Wild Food

http://www.ediblewildfood.com/broadleaf-plantain.aspx

Plantago Major

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantago_major

Purported Uses of Plantago Major In Herbal Medicine

https://altnature.com/gallery/plantain.htm

When you pinch off a leaf of Broadleaf Plantain, the white veins visible in the picture above, tend to strip away from the lower segment of the severed stem so that inch-long white fibers dangle from the leaf you've harvested. 

Broadleaf Plantain is easy to identify - all the more so by these dangling "threads."

The plant is perennial so when you find a patch in the wild, harvest it responsibly and you will have a ready source year after year. 

My supply is an abundant patch on a nearby river bank. 

Broadleaf Plantain is also cultivated as a garden vegetable.
http://wildfoodshomegarden.com/Plantain.html