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Ajuga reptans (common bugle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ajuga reptans, commonly known as bugle, blue bugle, bugleherb, bugleweed, carpetweed, carpet bugleweed, common bugle, is an herbaceous flowering plant native to Europe. It is invasive in parts of North America. Grown as a garden plant it provides useful groundcover. Numerous cultivars have been selected, of which "Caitlin's Giant" has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Ajuga reptans is also a component of purple moor grass and rush pastures, a Biodiversity Action Plan habitat in the United Kingdom.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Bee Flower Color [2]  Blue
Flower Color [3]  Blue
Foliage Color [3]  Green
Bloom Period [3]  Mid Summer
Drought Tolerance [3]  Medium
Edible [4]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [3]  High
Flower Type [4]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [3]  5 months 10 days
Growth Form [3]  Stoloniferous
Growth Period [3]  Spring, Summer, Fall
Growth Rate [3]  Rapid
Hazards [4]  The plant is said to be a narctic hallucinogen that is known to have caused fatalities;
Leaf Type [4]  Evergreen
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Pollinators [4]  Bees, Lepidoptera, Bats
Propagation [3]  Container, Sprig
Regrowth Rate [3]  Moderate
Root Depth [3]  10 inches (25 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [3]  None
Shape/Orientation [3]  Prostrate
Structure [6]  Herb
Usage [4]  A good ground-cover for a position in semi-shade; Fairly fast growing but it does not always smother out weeds and can become bare at the centre if not growing in good conditions;
Vegetative Spread Rate [3]  Moderate
Flower Conspicuous [3]  Yes
Height [4]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [4]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [3]  USDA Zone: 4 Low Temperature: -30 F° (-34.4 C°) → -20 F° (-28.9 C°)
Light Preference [5]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [5]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [5]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [5]  Damp
Water Use [3]  High
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Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces biocellatus[10]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 5ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 6Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Ecology of Commanster
♦ 9Food eaten by the free-living European bison in Białowieża Forest, Zofia GĘBCZYŃSKA, Marek GĘBCZYŃSKI and Ewa MARTYNOWICZ, Acta Theriologica 36 (3-4), 307-313, 1991.
♦ 10Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0