Ajuga orientalisL.

WFO wfo-0000934712 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ajuga orientalis, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. a Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-17 / obs. 205697661
Ajuga orientalis, photographed by Татьяна Максимова
fig. b Татьяна Максимова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159648028
Ajuga orientalis, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. c Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132642890
Ajuga orientalis, photographed by Екатерина Кропочева
fig. d Екатерина Кропочева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134096524
Ajuga orientalis, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. e Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128019585
Ajuga orientalis, photographed by Екатерина Кропочева
fig. f Екатерина Кропочева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134078461
Ajuga orientalis, photographed by Сергей Крыленко
fig. g Сергей Крыленко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76358476
Ajuga orientalis, photographed by Сергей Крыленко
fig. h Сергей Крыленко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73605284

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Ajuga orientalis is native: Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Sicilia, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine CyprusEast Aegean Is.IranLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaGreeceItalyKritiKrymSiciliaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Ajuga orientalis, 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
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Albania ALB EUROPE
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
Sicilia SIC
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR

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 50 in flower of 71 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Ajuga orientalis 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. 50 of 71 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.

Also published as 8 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 orientalis subsp. aenesia (Heldr.) Pithos & Damboldt
  • Ajuga orientalis var. aenesia Heldr.
  • Ajuga orientalis var. condensata Boiss.
  • Ajuga orientalis var. oblongifolia K.Koch
  • Ajuga orientalis var. orthosiphon K.Koch
  • Bugula obliqua Moench
  • Bugula orientalis (L.) Mill.
  • Bulga orientalis (L.) Kuntze

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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