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Definition of the noun ajuga

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noun - plural:

ajuga: ajugas
Ajuga: -

bugle
- lexical domain: Plants - nouns denoting plants
- synonym of Ajuga: genus Ajuga
- more generic term: asterid dicot genus = genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
- member of: family Labiatae / family Lamiaceae / Labiatae / Lamiaceae / mint family = a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage
- member: bugleweed / bugle = any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia

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Indiana Getting Started Garden Guide (2014)

Grow the Best Flowers, Shrubs, Trees, Vines & Groundcovers by Shawna Coronado

Ajuga is an excellent plant to place on a hillside for erosion control due to its rhizomatous nature. Flowers bloom in spring and early summer...

Ajuga is a tough little plant and tolerates a variety of conditions, from full ...

Gardening in the Lower Midwest (1994)

A Practical Guide for the New Zones 5 and 6 by Diane Heilenman

Ajuga reptans (bugle) Ajuga is a lovable, ground-hugging rosette of dark green leaves, sometimes variegated, that take on a rosy or maroon hue in winter. The leaves, which smother all weeds except the immortal violets and maple seedlings , ...

Illinois Geting Started Garden Guide (2014)

by Shawna Coronado

Ajuga is an excellent plant to place on a hillside for erosion control due to its rhizomatous nature. Flowers bloom in spring and...

Ajuga is a tough little plant and tolerates a variety of conditions, from full sun to full shade, from wet soil to dry , and ...

High-impact, Low-carbon Gardening (2011)

1001 Ways to Garden Sustainably by Alice Bowe

Ajuga is a robust edging plant ...

Deer in My Garden (2009)

Groundcovers & Edgers by Carolyn Singer

Whether it is used in small areas as an accent, or larger areas as a groundcover, Ajuga is a strong foliage plant. COMPANION PLANTS AND LANDSCAPE USE Ajuga reptans is an aggressive and tight evergreen groundcover that leaves room ...

The Chinook Short Season Yard (2014)

Quick and Beautiful in the Calgary Region by Lyndon Penner

Ajuga spp. (carpet bugle) Ajuga is a pretty ...

Southern Gardens 101 (2016)

Helpful Hints for the Beginner by Deborah Keever

Ajuga is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the mint family. Native to Asia, Africa, and Europe. Two species are native to Australia. Common names are Bugleweed, Carpet Bugleweed or Ground Pine. It is a ground cover ...

Plants for American Landscapes (2004)

by Neil G. Odenwald, Charles F. Fryling, Jr., Thomas E. Pope

Ajuga reptans Labiatae 6" Zones 3-9 Ajuga is a popular carpetlike ground cover suitable for small, well-tended plantings. A nonaggressive perennial, it is difficult to maintain in large plantings, for it does not compete well and weeds and ...

The New Orleans Garden (1993)

Gardening in the Gulf South by Charlotte Seidenberg

Ajuga is an evergreen, low-growing ground ...

CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names (1999)

Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology by Umberto Quattrocchi

Ajuga L. Labiatae Origins: ...

A Dictionary of Common Wildflowers of Texas & the Southern Great Plains (2005)

by Joel Ellis Holloway, Amanda Neill

Ajuga reptans Carpet Ajuga SCIENTIFIC NAME: Ajuga, no yoke, from Greek, a, a, without, none and Latin, iugum, a yoke. Reference is to the apparently missing upper corolla lip + reptans, Latin for creeping or crawling, for the growth pattern.

Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, containing a concise account of the various subjects and terms, ... and formulae for ... preparations etc. Third edition (1865)

Common, Ajuga re tans—b. Pyromi'dnlr, Ajuga— b.

Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening (2009)

The Indispensible Green Resource for Every Gardener by Fern Marshall Bradley, Barbara Ellis, Ellen Phillips

Ajuga, bugleweed. Perennial groundcovers. Description: Ajuga reptans, ajuga or common bugleweed, forms attractive dark green rosettes 2 to 3 inches wide, and spreads by runners 3 to 10 inches long. Cultivars may have bronze, pur— ple, ...

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (2012)

by Michael Allaby

Ajuga. (family *Lamiaceae) A genus of *herbs many of which have *radical leaves forming a *rosette. The leaves are *simple or lobed, sometimes toothed, without *stipules. The flowers are in at least 2 or manyflowered *whorls, often forming a ...

A Dictionary of Medical Science (1868)

Containing ... Lexicon by Robley Dunglison

Common, Ajuga reptans–b. Pyramidale, Ajuga–b. Rampante, Ajuga reptans–b. Water, Lycopus Virginicus— b. Weed, Lycopus. BUGLOSE, Anchusa officinalis. BUGLOSS, DYER'S, Anchusa tinctoria– b. Garden ...