Carpet Bugle Family

Ajuga reptans is commonly known as bugle blue bugle bugleherb bugleweed carpetweed carpet bugleweed and common bugle and traditionally but less commonly as st.

Carpet bugle family.

Selections with bronze or metallic tinted leaves keep color best in full sun. It is a trailing rooting ground cover. The genus was assigned by linnaeus from the latin for not yoked which refers to a certain part of the flower. Carpet bugleweed ajuga reptans.

Narrow spikes to 10 inches tall with whorls of dark blue purple flowers appear in abundance in spring. Ajuga reptans texas tough suntough carpet bugle a low groundcover growing under 6 inches tall with dense cover of green rounded slightly scalloped leaves. However when placed in strategic locations its quick growth and mat forming trait can provide instant coverage with only a few plants. Size and method of spreading.

Trailing rooting ground covers have trailing stems that spread out from a central root system. Ajuga reptans black scallop carpet bugle is a creeping perennial prized for its short spikes of fragrant deep blue flowers and very glossy near black scalloped leaves. It spreads quickly by runners making a mat of dark green leaves that grow 2 to 3 inches wide in full sun and 3 to 4 inches wide in part shade. Ajuga reptans is also a component of purple moor grass and rush pastures a biodiversity action.

Bugleweed ajuga reptans also called common bugleweed is a fast growing herbaceous perennial ground cover the species name reptans means creeping although it produces beautiful flower spikes and is available in several different cultivars that work well in landscaping it can also make quite a nuisance of itself through its aggressive spreading via underground runners called stolens. This is a very popular ground cover. It is known as bugle weed and the more ground hugging species were the carpet bugles. The basal leaves are up to 3 long and 1 across.

Ajuga reptans carpet bugle blephilia ciliata ohio horse mint blephilia hirsuta wood mint callicarpa americana american beautyberry beautyberry french mulberry clinopodium arkansanum arkansas calamint satureja low calamint collinsonia canadensis richweed citronella horse balm cunila origanoides dittany galeopsis tetrahit. They are evergreen or semi evergreen obovate spoon shaped and nearly hairless. Carpet bugle ajuga reptans mint family lamiaceae description. Bugleweed is a low growing ground cover usually staying under 6 inches.

This herbaceous perennial plant is 4 12 tall and unbranched consisting of a rosette of leaves and a flowering stalk. This garden perennial falls into the mint family along with all the useful herbs.