Ajuga pyramidalisL.

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WFO wfo-0000934953 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ajuga pyramidalis, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 205484711
Ajuga pyramidalis, photographed by Philipp
fig. b Philipp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201259816
Ajuga pyramidalis, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. c Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200986804
Ajuga pyramidalis, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. d Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149520534
Ajuga pyramidalis, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. e Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 144974125
Ajuga pyramidalis, photographed by Elias
fig. f Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138824811
Ajuga pyramidalis, photographed by Niko Ioannidis
fig. g Niko Ioannidis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136938065
Ajuga pyramidalis, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. h Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 134526615

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Ajuga pyramidalis is native: Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine AlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIcelandIrelandItalyNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Ajuga pyramidalis, 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
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Iceland ICE
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 432 in flower of 469 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Ajuga pyramidalis 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. 432 of 469 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 23 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 alpina Vill.
  • Ajuga astolonosa Schur
  • Ajuga caespitosa Schleich. ex Steud.
  • Ajuga genevensis subsp. pyramidalis (L.) Bonnier & Layens
  • Ajuga latifolia Schur
  • Ajuga nana Gilib.
  • Ajuga occidentalis Braun-Blanq.
  • Ajuga pyramidalis f. albida Svanlund
  • Ajuga pyramidalis f. occidentalis (Braun-Blanq.) Fern.Casas
  • Ajuga pyramidalis f. rubra Svanlund
  • Ajuga pyramidalis f. stolonifera Gaudin
  • Ajuga pyramidalis var. alpestris Gaudin
  • Ajuga pyramidalis var. alpina Nyman
  • Ajuga pyramidalis var. glabrata Hartm.
  • Ajuga pyramidalis var. meonantha Hoffmanns. & Link
  • Ajuga rupestris Schleich. ex Steud.
  • Ajuga vulgaris subsp. pyramidalis (L.) Rouy
  • Ajuga vulgaris subsp. schurii Rouy
  • Bugula montana Bubani
  • Bugula pyramidalis (L.) Crantz
  • Bugula villosa Steud.
  • Bulga pyramidalis (L.) Kuntze
  • Teucrium pyramidale (L.) Crantz

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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