Ajuga

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Ajuga reptans LC0138.jpg |image_caption = Common bugle (''Ajuga reptans'') |taxon = Ajuga |authority = L.(1753) |type_species = ''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 }}</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, ARS, 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'' Saint-Lager * ''Bugula'' P. Miller * ''Chamaepitys'' Hill * ''Moscharia'' Forssk. 1775 rejected name, not Ruiz & Pav. 1794 conserved name * ''Phleboanthe'' Tausch * ''Rosenbachia'' Regel * ''Bulga'' Kuntze }} thumb|350px|Ajuga on fine gravel '''''Ajuga''''' {{IPAc-en|ə|ˈ|dʒ|uː|ɡ|ə}},<ref>''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607; ''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 tribe of the mint family Lamiaceae. Over 60 species<ref name="POWO">{{Cite POWO|id=20646-1| title = Ajuga L.}}</ref> of annual or perennial, mostly 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.<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'' 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'' Maxim. – Uttarakhand, Nepal, northern India * ''Ajuga campylantha'' Diels – Yunnan * ''Ajuga campylanthoides'' C.Y.Wu & C.Chen – Tibet, central China * ''Ajuga chamaecistus'' Ging. ex Benth. – Iran, Afghanistan * ''Ajuga chamaepitys'' (L.) Schreb. – central and southern Europe, central and southwestern Asia * ''Ajuga chasmophila'' P.H.Davis – Syria * ''Ajuga ciliata'' Bunge – China, Korea, Japan * ''Ajuga davisiana'' Kit Tan & Yildiz – Turkey * ''Ajuga decaryana'' Danguy ex R.A.Clement – Madagascar * ''Ajuga decumbens'' Thunb. – 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 |year=2015 |isbn=978-89-97450-98-5 |location=Pocheon |pages=345 |access-date=24 December 2016 |via=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'' 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 and southern Europe, Caucasus; naturalized in North America * ''Ajuga grandiflora'' Stapf – South Australia * ''Ajuga incisia'' Maxim – Honshu Island in Japan * ''Ajuga integrifolia'' Buch.-Ham. – central and 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 and eastern India, northern Indochina * ''Ajuga makinoi'' Nakai – Honshu Island in Japan * ''Ajuga mollis'' Gladkova – Crimea * ''Ajuga multiflora'' Bunge – Korean pyramid bugle<ref name=":0" /> – 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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7566649|title=Ajuga chamaepitys subsp. Palaestina (Boiss.) Bornm}}</ref> * ''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'' 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<ref name=":0" /> – Korea * ''Ajuga taiwanensis'' Nakai ex Murata – Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, Philippines * ''Ajuga tenorii'' C.Presl in J.S.Presl & C.B.Presl – Italy * ''Ajuga turkestanica'' (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== <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>

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Category:Ajuga Category:Lamiaceae genera Category:Garden plants Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus