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I am an artist and autist of various and mostly amateur stripes!
"Plantago Lanceolota, a rosette-forming perennial herb, with leafless, silky, hairy flower stems [...] It is native to temperate Eurasia, widespread throughout the British Isles, but scarce on the most acidic soils. It is present and widespread in the Americas and Australia as an introduced species." - Wikipedia
In ch. 18 of Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer describes Plantain, or "White Man's Footstep," as a helpful medicinal herb and good neighbor in spite its non-native origins, writing: "Maybe the task assigned to Second Man is to unlearn the model of kudzu and follow the teachings of White Man’s Footstep, to strive to become naturalized to place, to throw off the mind-set of the immigrant. Being naturalized to place means to live as if this is the land that feeds you, as if these are the streams from which you drink, that build your body and fill your spirit. (…) Here you will give your gifts and meet your responsibilities. To become naturalized is to live as if your children’s future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. Because they do."