Ajuga ophrydis (bugle plant)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ajuga ophrydis, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-02-10 / obs. 179936196

Ajuga ophrydis, photographed by Matthew Fainman — fig. b Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174008444

Ajuga ophrydis, photographed by Andrew Hankey — fig. f Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 171863864

Ajuga ophrydis, photographed by Benjamin Fredlund — fig. g Benjamin Fredlund, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167722315

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Ajuga ophrydis, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Cape Provinces	CPP	AFRICA
Eswatini	SWZ
Free State	OFS
KwaZulu-Natal	NAT
Lesotho	LES
Northern Provinces	TVL

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 49 in flower of 55 examined

75%

86%

94%

100%

Proportion of examined Ajuga ophrydis in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	6	8	75%	41% to 93%
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	1	2	too few examined
Apr	0	0	too few examined
May	0	0	too few examined
Jun	1	1	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	1	1	too few examined
Oct	12	14	86%	60% to 96%
Nov	15	16	94%	72% to 99%
Dec	13	13	100%	77% to 100%

Peak flowering in Dec. Each bar is the share of Ajuga ophrydis 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. 49 of 55 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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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