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. There are over 60 species of annual or

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plants. They are native to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. They grow to tall, with

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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'' 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 ''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'' 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 ''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 ...

'' 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'' 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

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'')

References

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