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Scientific Name: | Ajuga reptans |
Common Name: | bugleweed, carpet bugleweed |
Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
Origin: | Europe |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
Plant Type: | Ground cover, Invasive plant |
Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
Habit: | Dense, Horizontal, Spreading |
Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Mounded |
Texture: | Medium |
Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Erosion control, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Herb, Small garden/space, Spring interest, Woodland margin |
Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Basal, Leathery, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Ovate, Ciliate, Crenate, Dentate |
Flowers: | Verticillaster, Blue, Purple, May-Jun |
Fruit: | Schizocarp, Green, Brown, Aug-Sep |
Key ID Features: | |
Dense evergreen ground cover; leaves basal and then opposite on runners, mostly ovate, 4-11cm long x 3-7cm wide, bronze-green, margins crenate to irregular; florets crowded in verticillasters, (pink-) blue to purple, May-June. |