Photo: Plantago major 5.

You can make a lot of plantain syrup if you have a few dozen people to pick the plantain for you ... that's at least a 5-liter kettle, possibly even larger. Perheniemi, Iitti, Finland. Processed. 2005-07-12.

Plantago major L.
Engl.: common plantain, broad-leafed plantain, great plantain, greater plantain, plantain, rib-grass, ribwort, ripple-grass, waybread, white man's foot.
Deu.: Breitwegerich, Grosser Wegerich, Wegbreit.
Suom.: piharatamo.
Sven.: groblad, gårdsgroblad, vägbräddblad, åkergroblad.
Dan.: glat vejbred.
Fran.: grand plantain, plantain majeur.
Pre-Linnaean: Plantago, Plantago foliis ovatis glabris