Ajuga iva(L.) Schreb.

WFO wfo-0000934146 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ajuga iva, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. a Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-13 / obs. 188709136
Ajuga iva, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. b Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185533774
Ajuga iva, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. c Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184119829
Ajuga iva, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. d Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183873630
Ajuga iva, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. e Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184200949
Ajuga iva, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. f Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179239109
Ajuga iva, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. g Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166959973
Ajuga iva, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. h Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164931243

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Ajuga iva is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaWestern SaharaCyprusEast Aegean Is.PalestineSinaiTürkiyeAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpain Canary Is.Cape VerdeMadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Ajuga iva, 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
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Cape Verde CVI
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
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 229 in flower of 282 examined

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Ajuga iva 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. 229 of 282 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 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 25 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.

  • Abiga cistifolia St.-Lag.
  • Ajuga humilis Porta
  • Ajuga iva f. cleistogama Heldr.
  • Ajuga iva f. punctata Radić
  • Ajuga iva prol. pseudoiva (Robill. & Castagne ex DC.) Rouy
  • Ajuga iva subsp. humilis Sennen & Mauricio
  • Ajuga iva subsp. pseudoiva (Robill. & Castagne ex DC.) Briq.
  • Ajuga iva var. cleistogama (Heldr.) Pamp.
  • Ajuga iva var. linearifolia Rouy
  • Ajuga iva var. pseudoiva (Robill. & Castagne ex DC.) Steud.
  • Ajuga iva var. robertiana Maire
  • Ajuga iva var. spathulifolia Mutel
  • Ajuga moschata (Mill.) Schreb.
  • Ajuga pseudoiva Robill. & Castagne ex DC.
  • Ajuga pseudoiva var. apetala Sennen
  • Bugula moschata (Mill.) Bubani
  • Bulga iva (L.) Kuntze
  • Chamaepitys iva (L.) Fourr.
  • Chamaepitys moschata Garsault
  • Chamaepitys pseudoiva (Robill. & Castagne ex DC.) Fourr.
  • Moscharia arabica Vitman
  • Moscharia asperidifolia Forssk.
  • Moscharia forskaohlii J.F.Gmel.
  • Teucrium iva L.

and 1 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. 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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