# Ajuga

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Ajuga reptans LC0138.jpg
|image_caption = Common bugle (''[Ajuga reptans](/source/Ajuga_reptans)'')
|taxon = Ajuga
|authority = [L.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus)(1753)
|type_species = ''[Ajuga reptans](/source/Ajuga_reptans)''
|type_species_authority = L.
|synonyms_ref = <ref name="ing">{{cite web
 | url = http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Ajuga
 | title = ''Ajuga'' 
 | access-date = 2008-06-04
 | date = 1996-02-09
 | work = Index Nominum Genericorum
 | publisher = [International Association for Plant Taxonomy](/source/International_Association_for_Plant_Taxonomy)
}}</ref><ref name="GRIN">{{cite web
 |url          = http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?342
 |title        = Genus: ''Ajuga'' L.
 |access-date   = 2008-06-04
 |author       = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
 |author-link   = Germplasm Resources Information Network
 |date         = 2004-09-10
 |work         = Taxonomy for Plants
 |publisher    = [USDA](/source/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture), [ARS](/source/Agricultural_Research_Service), National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090519025542/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?342
 |archive-date = 2009-05-19
 |url-status     = dead
}}</ref><ref name=gg>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=5153 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref>
|synonyms =
* ''Abiga'' <small>Saint-Lager</small>
* ''Bugula'' <small>P. Miller</small>
* ''Chamaepitys''  <small>Hill</small>
* ''Moscharia'' <small>Forssk. 1775 rejected name, not Ruiz & Pav. 1794 conserved name</small>
* ''Phleboanthe'' <small>Tausch</small>
* ''Rosenbachia'' <small>Regel</small>
* ''Bulga'' <small>Kuntze</small>
}}
thumb|350px|Ajuga on fine gravel
'''''Ajuga''''' {{IPAc-en|ə|ˈ|dʒ|uː|ɡ|ə}},<ref>''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607; ''[OED](/source/OED):'' "Ajuga"</ref> also known as '''bugleweed''',<ref name=Hortusthird>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.</ref> '''ground pine''',<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/246940/ground-pine Encyclopædia Britannica Online, retrieved February 04, 2010]</ref> '''carpet bugle''', or just '''bugle''', is a genus of flowering plants in the [Ajugeae](/source/Ajugeae) tribe of the mint family [Lamiaceae](/source/Lamiaceae). Over 60 species<ref name="POWO">{{Cite POWO|id=20646-1| title = Ajuga L.}}</ref> of [annual](/source/Annual_plant) or [perennial](/source/Perennial_plant), mostly [herbaceous](/source/herbaceous) plants are known.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=100916 | work = Flora of China | title = Ajuga}}</ref> They are native to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.<ref name="POWO"/>

They grow to {{convert|5|–|50|cm|in|abbr=on}} tall, with [opposite leaves](/source/opposite_leaves).<ref>{{cite book|title=Compassionate Herbs|publisher=Faber and Faber Limited|url=https://archive.org/stream/compassionateher033486mbp#page/n7/mode/2up|author=C. F. Leyel|year=1946}}</ref>

==Species==
Species accepted within ''Ajuga'' include:<ref name=gg/>
* ''[Ajuga arabica](/source/Ajuga_arabica)'' <small>P.H.Davis</small> – Saudi Arabia
* ''[Ajuga australis](/source/Ajuga_australis)'' <small>R.Br.</small> - Australia
* ''[Ajuga bombycina](/source/Ajuga_bombycina)'' <small>Boiss.</small> – Aegean Islands, Turkey
* ''[Ajuga boninsimae](/source/Ajuga_boninsimae)'' <small>Maxim.</small> – Ogasawara-shoto (Bonin Islands of Japan)
* ''[Ajuga brachystemon](/source/Ajuga_brachystemon)'' <small>Maxim.</small> – Uttarakhand, Nepal, northern India
* ''[Ajuga campylantha](/source/Ajuga_campylantha)'' <small>Diels</small> – Yunnan
* ''[Ajuga campylanthoides](/source/Ajuga_campylanthoides)'' <small>C.Y.Wu & C.Chen</small> – Tibet, central China
* ''[Ajuga chamaecistus](/source/Ajuga_chamaecistus)'' <small>Ging. ex Benth.</small> – Iran, Afghanistan
* ''[Ajuga chamaepitys](/source/Ajuga_chamaepitys)'' <small>(L.) Schreb.</small> – central and southern Europe, central and southwestern Asia
* ''[Ajuga chasmophila](/source/Ajuga_chasmophila)'' <small>P.H.Davis</small> – Syria
* ''[Ajuga ciliata](/source/Ajuga_ciliata)'' <small>Bunge</small> – China, Korea, Japan
* ''[Ajuga davisiana](/source/Ajuga_davisiana)'' <small>Kit Tan & Yildiz</small> – Turkey
* ''[Ajuga decaryana](/source/Ajuga_decaryana)'' <small>Danguy ex R.A.Clement</small> – Madagascar
* ''[Ajuga decumbens](/source/Ajuga_decumbens)''  <small>Thunb.</small> – decumbent bugle<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf |title=English Names for Korean Native Plants |publisher=[Korea National Arboretum](/source/Korea_National_Arboretum) |year=2015 |isbn=978-89-97450-98-5 |location=Pocheon |pages=345 |access-date=24 December 2016 |via=[Korea Forest Service](/source/Korea_Forest_Service) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525105020/http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf |archive-date=25 May 2017 }}</ref> – China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands
* ''[Ajuga dictyocarpa](/source/Ajuga_dictyocarpa)'' <small>Hayata</small> – - China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands
* ''[Ajuga fauriei](/source/Ajuga_fauriei)'' <small>H.Lév. & Vaniot</small> – Korea
* ''[Ajuga flaccida](/source/Ajuga_flaccida)'' <small>Baker</small> – Madagascar
* ''[Ajuga forrestii](/source/Ajuga_forrestii)'' <small>Diels</small> – China, Tibet, Nepal
* ''[Ajuga genevensis](/source/Ajuga_genevensis)'' <small>L.</small> – central and southern Europe, Caucasus; naturalized in North America
* ''[Ajuga grandiflora](/source/Ajuga_grandiflora)'' <small>Stapf</small> – South Australia
* ''[Ajuga incisia](/source/Ajuga_incisia)'' <small>Maxim</small> – Honshu Island in Japan
* ''[Ajuga integrifolia](/source/Ajuga_integrifolia)'' <small>Buch.-Ham.</small> – central and eastern Africa, southern Asia (Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, China, Indonesia, etc.), New Guinea
* ''[Ajuga iva](/source/Ajuga_iva)'' <small>(L.) Schreb.</small> – Mediterranean region from Canary Islands and Madeira to Turkey and Palestine
* ''[Ajuga japonica](/source/Ajuga_japonica)'' <small>Miq.</small> – Japan
* ''[Ajuga laxmannii](/source/Ajuga_laxmannii)'' <small>(Murray) Benth.</small> – southeastern Europe from Czech Republic to Greece; Turkey, Caucasus
* ''[Ajuga leucantha](/source/Ajuga_leucantha)'' <small>Lukhoba</small> – Uganda, DRoC, Ethiopia
* ''[Ajuga linearifolia](/source/Ajuga_linearifolia)'' <small>Pamp.</small> – China
* ''[Ajuga lobata](/source/Ajuga_lobata)'' <small>D.Don</small> – China, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar
* ''[Ajuga lupulina](/source/Ajuga_lupulina)'' <small>Maxim.</small>  - China, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam
* ''[Ajuga macrosperma](/source/Ajuga_macrosperma)'' <small>Wall. ex Benth.</small> – China, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, northern and eastern India, northern Indochina
* ''[Ajuga makinoi](/source/Ajuga_makinoi)'' <small>Nakai</small> – Honshu Island in Japan
* ''[Ajuga mollis](/source/Ajuga_mollis)'' <small>Gladkova</small> – Crimea
* ''[Ajuga multiflora](/source/Ajuga_multiflora)'' <small>Bunge</small> – Korean pyramid bugle<ref name=":0" /> – China, Korea, Chita region of Siberia, Amur, Primorye
* ''[Ajuga nipponensis](/source/Ajuga_nipponensis)'' <small>Makino</small> – China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan
* ''[Ajuga novoguineensis](/source/Ajuga_novoguineensis)'' <small>A.J.Paton & R.J.Johns</small> – New Guinea
* ''[Ajuga nubigena](/source/Ajuga_nubigena)'' <small>Diels</small> – Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan
* ''[Ajuga oblongata](/source/Ajuga_oblongata)'' <small>M.Bieb.</small> – Iraq, Caucasus
* ''[Ajuga oocephala](/source/Ajuga_oocephala)'' <small>Baker</small> – Madagascar
* ''[Ajuga ophrydris](/source/Ajuga_ophrydris)'' <small>Burch. ex Benth.</small> – South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho
* ''[Ajuga orientalis](/source/Ajuga_orientalis)'' <small>L.</small> – eastern Mediterranean
* ''[Ajuga ovalifolia](/source/Ajuga_ovalifolia)'' <small>Bureau & Franch.</small> – China
* ''[Ajuga palaestina](/source/Ajuga_palaestina)'' - Palestine (Region), Turkey<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7566649|title=Ajuga chamaepitys subsp. Palaestina (Boiss.) Bornm}}</ref>
* ''[Ajuga pantantha](/source/Ajuga_pantantha)'' <small>Hand.-Mazz.</small> – Yunnan
* ''[Ajuga parviflora](/source/Ajuga_parviflora)'' <small>Benth.</small> – Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, Nepal
* ''[Ajuga piskoi](/source/Ajuga_piskoi)''  <small>Degen & Bald.</small> – Albania, Yugoslavia
* ''[Ajuga postii](/source/Ajuga_postii)'' <small>Briq.</small> – Turkey
* ''[Ajuga pygmaea](/source/Ajuga_pygmaea)'' <small>A.Gray</small> – China, Japan, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands
* ''[Ajuga pyramidalis](/source/Ajuga_pyramidalis)'' <small>L.</small> – central + southern Europe
* ''[Ajuga relicta](/source/Ajuga_relicta)'' <small>P.H.Davis</small> – Turkey
* ''[Ajuga reptans](/source/Ajuga_reptans)'' <small>L.</small> – Europe, Algeria, Tunisia, Iran, Turkey, Caucasus; naturalized in New Zealand, North America, and Venezuela
* ''[Ajuga robusta](/source/Ajuga_robusta)'' <small>Baker</small> – Madagascar
* ''[Ajuga salicifolia](/source/Ajuga_salicifolia)'' <small>(L.) Schreb.</small> – Balkans, Crimea, southern Russia, Turkey
* ''[Ajuga saxicola](/source/Ajuga_saxicola)'' <small>Assadi & Jamzad</small> – Iran
* ''[Ajuga sciaphila](/source/Ajuga_sciaphila)'' <small>W.W.Sm.</small>.- southwestern China
* ''[Ajuga shikotanensis](/source/Ajuga_shikotanensis)'' <small>Miyabe & Tatew</small> – Japan, Kuril Islands
* ''[Ajuga sinuata](/source/Ajuga_sinuata)''  <small>R.Br.</small> – New South Wales
* ''[Ajuga spectabilis](/source/Ajuga_spectabilis)'' <small>Nakai</small> – Korean bugle<ref name=":0" /> – Korea
* ''[Ajuga taiwanensis](/source/Ajuga_taiwanensis)'' <small>Nakai ex Murata</small> – Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, Philippines
* ''[Ajuga tenorii](/source/Ajuga_tenorii)'' <small>C.Presl in J.S.Presl & C.B.Presl</small> – Italy
* ''[Ajuga turkestanica](/source/Ajuga_turkestanica)''  <small>(Regel) Briq.</small> – Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
* ''[Ajuga vesiculifera](/source/Ajuga_vesiculifera)'' <small>Herder</small> – Kyrgyzstan
* ''[Ajuga vestita](/source/Ajuga_vestita)'' <small>Boiss.</small> – Turkey, Iran
* ''[Ajuga xylorrhiza](/source/Ajuga_xylorrhiza)'' <small>Kit Tan</small> – Turkey
* ''[Ajuga yesoensis](/source/Ajuga_yesoensis)'' <small>Maxim. ex Franch. & Sav.</small> – Japan
* ''[Ajuga zakhoensis](/source/Ajuga_zakhoensis)'' <small>Rech.f.</small> – Iraq

==Gallery==
<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
Image:Ajuga pyramidalis RF.jpg|Pyramid bugle (''Ajuga pyramidalis'')
</gallery>

==References==
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Category:Ajuga
Category:Lamiaceae genera
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