''Ajuga'' , also known as bugleweed,Bailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. ''Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada''. Macmillan, New York. ground pine, carpet bugle, or just bugle, is a genus of 40 species

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Ajugeae Ajugeae is a tribe of the subfamily Ajugoideae in the family Lamiaceae. It contains five genera: ''Acrymia'' Prain, '' Ajuga'' L., ''Cymaria'' Benth., ''Garrettia'' H. R. Fletcher, and ''Holocheila ''Holocheila'' is a genus of flowering plant ...

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of the mint

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Lamiaceae, with most species

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to Europe, Asia, and Africa, but also two species in southeastern Australia.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Species

Species accepted within ''Ajuga'' include: * '' Ajuga arabica'' P.H.Davis – Saudi Arabia * '' Ajuga australis'' R.Br. - Australia * '' Ajuga bombycina'' Boiss. – Aegean Islands, Turkey * '' Ajuga boninsimae'' Maxim. – Ogasawara-shoto (Bonin Islands of Japan) * ''

Ajuga brachystemon ''Ajuga'' , also known as bugleweed,Bailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. ''Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada''. Macmillan, New York. ground pine, c ...

'' Maxim. – Uttarakhand, Nepal, northern India * '' Ajuga campylantha'' Diels – Yunnan * '' Ajuga campylanthoides'' C.Y.Wu & C.Chen – Tibet, central China * ''

Ajuga chamaecistus ''Ajuga'' , also known as bugleweed,Bailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. ''Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada''. Macmillan, New York. ground pine, c ...

'' Ging. ex Benth. – Iran, Afghanistan * ''

Ajuga chamaepitys ''Ajuga chamaepitys'' is a species of flowering plant of the family Lamiaceae. Popularly known as yellow bugle, chian bugle or ground-pine, the plant has many of the same characteristics and properties as ''Ajuga reptans''. ''A. chamaepitys'' ...

'' (L.) Schreb. – central + southern Europe, central + southwestern Asia * ''

Ajuga chasmophila ''Ajuga'' , also known as bugleweed,Bailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. ''Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada''. Macmillan, New York. ground pine, c ...

'' P.H.Davis – Syria * ''

Ajuga ciliata ''Ajuga'' , also known as bugleweed,Bailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. ''Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada''. Macmillan, New York. ground pine, c ...

'' Bunge – China, Korea, Japan * ''

Ajuga davisiana ''Ajuga'' , also known as bugleweed,Bailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. ''Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada''. Macmillan, New York. ground pine, c ...

'' Kit Tan & Yildiz – Turkey * ''

Ajuga decaryana ''Ajuga'' , also known as bugleweed,Bailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. ''Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada''. Macmillan, New York. ground pine, c ...

'' Danguy ex R.A.Clement – Madagascar * '' Ajuga decumbens'' Thunb. – decumbent bugle – China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands * ''

Ajuga dictyocarpa ''Ajuga'' , also known as bugleweed,Bailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. ''Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada''. Macmillan, New York. ground pine, c ...

'' Hayata – - China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands * '' Ajuga fauriei'' H.Lév. & Vaniot – Korea * '' Ajuga flaccida'' Baker – Madagascar * '' Ajuga forrestii'' Diels – China, Tibet, Nepal * '' Ajuga genevensis'' L. – central + southern Europe, Caucasus; naturalized in North America * '' Ajuga grandiflora'' Stapf – South Australia * '' Ajuga incisia'' Maxim – Honshu Island in Japan * '' Ajuga integrifolia'' Buch.-Ham. – central + eastern Africa, southern Asia (Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, China, Indonesia, etc.), New Guinea * '' Ajuga iva'' (L.) Schreb. – Mediterranean region from Canary Islands and Madeira to Turkey and Palestine * '' Ajuga japonica'' Miq. – Japan * '' Ajuga laxmannii'' (Murray) Benth. – southeastern Europe from Czech Republic to Greece; Turkey, Caucasus * '' Ajuga leucantha'' Lukhoba – Uganda, DRoC, Ethiopia * '' Ajuga linearifolia'' Pamp. – China * '' Ajuga lobata'' D.Don – China, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar * '' Ajuga lupulina'' Maxim. - China, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam * '' Ajuga macrosperma'' Wall. ex Benth. – China, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, northern + eastern India, northern Indochina * '' Ajuga makinoi'' Nakai – Honshu Island in Japan * '' Ajuga mollis'' Gladkova – Crimea * '' Ajuga multiflora'' Bunge – Korean pyramid bugle – China, Korea, Chita region of Siberia, Amur, Primorye * '' Ajuga nipponensis'' Makino – China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan * '' Ajuga novoguineensis'' A.J.Paton & R.J.Johns – New Guinea * '' Ajuga nubigena'' Diels – Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan * '' Ajuga oblongata'' M.Bieb. – Iraq, Caucasus * '' Ajuga oocephala'' Baker – Madagascar * '' Ajuga ophrydris'' Burch. ex Benth. – South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho * '' Ajuga orientalis'' L. – eastern Mediterranean * '' Ajuga ovalifolia'' Bureau & Franch. – China * '' Ajuga palaestina'' - Palestine (Region), Turkey * '' Ajuga pantantha'' Hand.-Mazz. – Yunnan * '' Ajuga parviflora'' Benth. – Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, Nepal * '' Ajuga piskoi'' Degen & Bald. – Albania, Yugoslavia * '' Ajuga postii'' Briq. – Turkey * '' Ajuga pygmaea'' A.Gray – China, Japan, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands * '' Ajuga pyramidalis'' L. – central + southern Europe * '' Ajuga relicta'' P.H.Davis – Turkey * ''

Ajuga reptans ''Ajuga reptans'' is commonly known as bugle, blue bugle, bugleherb, bugleweed, carpetweed, carpet bugleweed, and common bugle, and traditionally but less commonly as St. Lawrence plant. It is an herbaceous flowering plant in the mint family Lamia ...

'' L. – Europe, Algeria, Tunisia, Iran, Turkey, Caucasus; naturalized in New Zealand, North America, and Venezuela * '' Ajuga robusta'' Baker – Madagascar * '' Ajuga salicifolia'' (L.) Schreb. – Balkans, Crimea, southern Russia, Turkey * '' Ajuga saxicola'' Assadi & Jamzad – Iran * '' Ajuga sciaphila'' W.W.Sm..- southwestern China * '' Ajuga shikotanensis'' Miyabe & Tatew – Japan, Kuril Islands * '' Ajuga sinuata'' R.Br. – New South Wales * '' Ajuga spectabilis'' Nakai – Korean bugle – Korea * '' Ajuga taiwanensis'' Nakai ex Murata – Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, Philippines * '' Ajuga tenorii'' C.Presl in J.S.Presl & C.B.Presl – Italy * ''

Ajuga turkestanica ''Ajuga turkestanica'' is a herbaceous flowering plant native to Central Asia. It was first described in 1894. Description ''A. turkestanica'' is a perennial herbaceous plant reaching heights between 40 and 60 cm. The plant is typically found i ...

'' (Regel) Briq. – Tajikistan, Uzbekistan * '' Ajuga vesiculifera'' Herder – Kyrgyzstan * '' Ajuga vestita'' Boiss. – Turkey, Iran * '' Ajuga xylorrhiza'' Kit Tan – Turkey * '' Ajuga yesoensis'' Maxim. ex Franch. & Sav. – Japan * '' Ajuga zakhoensis'' Rech.f. – Iraq

Gallery

Image:Ajuga_genevensis_150505.jpg, Blue bugle (''Ajuga genevensis'') Image:Illustration Ajuga reptans0.jpg, Common bugle from Thomé, ''Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz'', 1885 Image:Ajuga nipponica Makino, USNH 1962.jpg, Color specimen of ''Ajuga nipponica Makino'', 1962

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q158472 Lamiaceae genera Garden plants Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus