My newest plantain flower.  If you look carefully, you can see a couple of bees, which is reassuring.

 Another picture of my flower with little plantainlets.  This makes it clear that both male and female parts of the plantain live closely together.

 This is the same flower two weeks later than the above pictures.  There are four “hands” of plantains.  This plant does not shade my garden, so I will leave the plant standing for awhile.  It has become fallish today.  The temperature is only in the mid-60s.