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Taxon: Ajuga chamaepitys (L.) Schreb.

Genus: Ajuga
Family: Lamiaceae (alt. Labiatae) subfamily: Ajugoideae.
Nomen number: 316539
Place of publication: Pl. verticill. unilab. gen. sp. 24. 1774
Name verified on: 27-Apr-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-1997
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • ajuga   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  • ground-pine   (Source: Dict Gard )
  • yellow bugle   (Source: Dict Gard )

Economic importance:

  • Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
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Distributional range:

Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
    Middle Asia: Turkmenistan
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part [s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

References:

  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Ajuga chamaepitys (L.) Schreb.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?316539 (22 November 2009)

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