Ajuga reptansL.

carpet bugle

WFO wfo-0000935107 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ajuga reptans, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. a John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205388136
Ajuga reptans, photographed by Nick Kleinschmidt
fig. b Nick Kleinschmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205445158
Ajuga reptans, photographed by Stanislav Murashkin
fig. c Stanislav Murashkin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204216882
Ajuga reptans, photographed by Daria
fig. d Daria, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205135407
Ajuga reptans, photographed by snaily_naily
fig. e snaily_naily, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203258091
Ajuga reptans, photographed by Марина Давлетшина
fig. f Марина Давлетшина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203585656
Ajuga reptans, photographed by snaily_naily
fig. g snaily_naily, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203161522
Ajuga reptans, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. h Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203735885

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Flowering n = 8,062 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 8,062 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 30 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 abnormis (Rouy) Prain
  • Ajuga alpina Fr.
  • Ajuga barrelieri Ten.
  • Ajuga breviproles Borbás
  • Ajuga candolleana (Rouy) Prain
  • Ajuga densiflora Ten.
  • Ajuga nanti Boreau
  • Ajuga pyramidalis Huds.
  • Ajuga repens Gueldenst. ex Ledeb.
  • Ajuga reptans subvar. densiflora Nyman
  • Ajuga reptans var. alba C.Mackintosh
  • Ajuga reptans var. albiflora Tinant
  • Ajuga reptans var. alpina Nyman
  • Ajuga reptans var. caerulea C.Mackintosh
  • Ajuga reptans var. lerezana Blanco-Dios
  • Ajuga reptans var. pyramidata Zalewski
  • Ajuga reptans var. rubra C.Mackintosh
  • Ajuga stolonifera Jeanb. & Timb.-Lagr.
  • Ajuga vulgaris Rouy
  • Ajuga vulgaris prol. candolleana Rouy
  • Ajuga vulgaris subsp. abnormis Rouy
  • Ajuga vulgaris subsp. nantii (Boreau) Rouy
  • Ajuga vulgaris subsp. reptans (L.) Rouy
  • Ajuga vulgaris var. bifera Gillot

and 6 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.