Ajuga
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Ajuga Template:IPAc-en,<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>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. There are over 60 species<ref name="POWO">Template:Cite POWO</ref> of annual or perennial, mostly herbaceous plants.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They are native to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.<ref name="POWO"/>
They grow to Template:Convert tall, with opposite leaves.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
SpeciesEdit
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 + southern Europe, central + 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">Template:Cite book</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 + 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<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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 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
GalleryEdit
- Ajuga genevensis 150505.jpg
Blue bugle (Ajuga genevensis)
- Illustration Ajuga reptans0.jpg
Common bugle from Thomé, Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885
- Ajuga nipponica Makino, USNH 1962.jpg
Color specimen of Ajuga nipponica Makino, 1962
- Ajuga pyramidalis RF.jpg
Pyramid bugle (Ajuga pyramidalis)