Insect pollination of Plantago lanceolata L.

Abstract

IN Britain, Plantago lanceolata is regarded as windpollinated1 and is figured by McLean and Ivimey-Cook2 as a typical example of a long-filament-type wind-pollinated species. It was therefore of interest to observe that around Brisbane this long-filament form is regularly worked for pollen by the honey bee wherever a dozen or so spikes are flowering within a few feet of each other. © 1962 Nature Publishing Group.