This Common Weed Happens to be One of Nature’s Most Powerful Survival Plants

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Weeds can be incredibly annoying. You spend all your hard-earned weekends working your knuckles to the bone on your lawn, pushing a heavy mower, watering when necessary, and dishing out tons of money on pesticides and herbicides.

And then, all of that is usually in vein when you have to deal with the hardiest weeds that continue to pop up and ruin your grass.

As luck would have it, a lot of weeds have a variety of uses other than popping up in the most annoying of places.

Many are edible or have medicinal purposes. One such plant is called a plantain, which can be used as a cure for a lot of ailments.

To learn all about this weed, which is more than likely somewhere in your yard right now, check out the next page.

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17 Comments

  1. Gary Lamb said:

    My yard is FULL of Plantain.Our Rabbit Loves it.But I’ve heard a lot of good things about it.

  2. Ezra Zbach said:

    This article said absolutely nothing didn’t even say what the plant was

  3. Justin Smith said:

    Dam, I used to stop my tortoise from eating these. Apparently he knew what he was doing and I didn’t..lol

  4. Frank Vozenilek said:

    Looking at the picture, I assume they are referring to plantain. I “weed” that grows everywhere.

    I use it primarily as a topical antimicrobial – like Neosporin or bacitracin. It works as a poultice or a salve. Use some vegetable oil to steep it like tea, for several hours, then strain that and thicken it with bees wax or paraffin wax, to a consistency like carmex that’s been in your pocket to long. Comfrey is probably the only

  5. Daniel Engel Sr. said:

    You can just roll it between your hands to get it juicy. Then rub you wound with it. Very effective.

  6. Beth Cook said:

    I put these in coconut oil and wash my face with it every day

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