Ajuga genevensisL.

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WFO wfo-0000933858 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ajuga genevensis, photographed by CorentinD
fig. a CorentinD, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-14 / obs. 207097080
Ajuga genevensis, photographed by evgeniq_benihanov
fig. b evgeniq_benihanov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205736902
Ajuga genevensis, photographed by evgeniq_benihanov
fig. c evgeniq_benihanov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205735652
Ajuga genevensis, photographed by Eric Schmidt
fig. d Eric Schmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205024391
Ajuga genevensis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203308825
Ajuga genevensis, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. f Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202666432
Ajuga genevensis, photographed by Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun
fig. g Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202253811
Ajuga genevensis, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. h Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201876139

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Ajuga genevensis is native: North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, Netherlands, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine North CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNetherlandsNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Ajuga genevensis, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
Netherlands NET
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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 592 in flower of 624 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Ajuga genevensis 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. 592 of 624 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 32 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 alpestris Dumort.
  • Ajuga alpicola (Beck) Dalla Torre
  • Ajuga alpina L.
  • Ajuga cryptostylon Lagr.-Foss.
  • Ajuga foliosa Tratt.
  • Ajuga genevensis var. alpicola Beck
  • Ajuga genevensis var. alpina (L.) Nyman
  • Ajuga genevensis var. arida Fr.
  • Ajuga genevensis var. cryptostylon (Lagr.-Foss.) Nyman
  • Ajuga genevensis var. elatior Fr.
  • Ajuga genevensis var. foliosa (Tratt.) Beck
  • Ajuga genevensis var. frigida Dumort.
  • Ajuga genevensis var. glabrifolia St.-Lag.
  • Ajuga genevensis var. grossidens Briq.
  • Ajuga genevensis var. integrifolia Sanio
  • Ajuga genevensis var. longifolia Klett & Richt.
  • Ajuga genevensis var. longistyla St.-Lag.
  • Ajuga genevensis var. rosea Gaudin
  • Ajuga glabrifolia (St.-Lag.) Bonnier
  • Ajuga interrupta Dulac
  • Ajuga lanata Mart. ex Steud.
  • Ajuga latifolia Host
  • Ajuga montana Rchb.
  • Ajuga pyramidalis M.Bieb.

and 8 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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