Ajuga chamaepitys(L.) Schreb.

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WFO wfo-0000933181 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ajuga chamaepitys, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. a Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203461276
Ajuga chamaepitys, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. b John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202520088
Ajuga chamaepitys, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. c Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199708577
Ajuga chamaepitys, photographed by Ирина Хохрякова
fig. d Ирина Хохрякова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197080106
Ajuga chamaepitys, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. e Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195584239
Ajuga chamaepitys, photographed by CorentinD
fig. f CorentinD, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193882753
Ajuga chamaepitys, photographed by Michael Knapp
fig. g Michael Knapp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191916087
Ajuga chamaepitys, photographed by David Delon
fig. h David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189912946

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Native range 42 botanical countries

Regions where Ajuga chamaepitys is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqKazakhstanLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanAlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaSpainSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Ajuga chamaepitys, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 483 in flower of 508 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Ajuga chamaepitys observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 483 of 508 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 58 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ajuga chamaepitys Guss.
  • Ajuga chamaepitys f. grandiflora (Vis.) Jáv.
  • Ajuga chamaepitys f. hirta (Freyn) Bolzon
  • Ajuga chamaepitys f. subglabra H.Lindb.
  • Ajuga chamaepitys subsp. ciliata (Briq.) Smejkal
  • Ajuga chamaepitys var. chia (Schreb.) Batt.
  • Ajuga chamaepitys var. ciliata Briq.
  • Ajuga chamaepitys var. glabra (C.Presl) Nyman
  • Ajuga chamaepitys var. glabriuscula Holuby
  • Ajuga chamaepitys var. grandiflora Vis.
  • Ajuga chamaepitys var. hirta Freyn
  • Ajuga chamaepitys var. media Freyn
  • Ajuga chamaepitys var. suffrutescens Willk.
  • Ajuga chia Schreb.
  • Ajuga chia subsp. tridactylites (Boiss.) Holmboe
  • Ajuga chia var. intermedia (Boiss. & Orph.) Nyman
  • Ajuga chia var. suffrutescens Boiss.
  • Ajuga chia var. tridactylites Boiss.
  • Ajuga comata Stapf
  • Ajuga cuneatifolia Stapf
  • Ajuga glabra C.Presl
  • Ajuga glabra Benth.
  • Ajuga grandiflora (Vis.) Degen
  • Ajuga grandiflora var. ciliata (Briq.) Degen

and 34 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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