Ajuga ,Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607; OED: "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,Encyclopædia Britannica Online, retrieved February 04, 2010 carpet bugle, or just bugle, is a genus of flowering plants in the Ajugeae tribe of the mint family Lamiaceae. Over 60 species of annual or perennial, mostly herbaceous plants are known. They are native to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
They grow to tall, with opposite leaves.
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 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 – 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 – 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 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 (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
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