Ajuga laxmannii(L.) Benth.

WFO wfo-0000934294 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ajuga laxmannii, photographed by Conrad Altmann
fig. a Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-12 / obs. 128553067
Ajuga laxmannii, photographed by Conrad Altmann
fig. b Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36166416
Ajuga laxmannii, photographed by Conrad Altmann
fig. c Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36166365
Ajuga laxmannii, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. d Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173312924
Ajuga laxmannii, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. e Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173911763
Ajuga laxmannii, photographed by katunchik
fig. f katunchik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198537356
Ajuga laxmannii, photographed by Nicola Faulks
fig. g Nicola Faulks, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200769690
Ajuga laxmannii, photographed by Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun
fig. h Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 95189735

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Ajuga laxmannii is native: North Caucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Greece, Hungary, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, South European Russia, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine North CaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaGreeceHungaryKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSouth European RussiaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Ajuga laxmannii, 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
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
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 31 in flower of 37 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Ajuga laxmannii 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. 31 of 37 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 10 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 4 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.

  • Bulga laxmannii (L.) Kuntze
  • Phleboanthe laxmannii (L.) Tausch
  • Teucrium laxmannii L.
  • Teucrium pseudiva Gueldenst. ex Ledeb.

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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