Common name:
Bugle
Family:
Scientific name:
Ajuga reptans
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK
Height:
Up to 30 cm
Habitat:
Woodland, damp grassland, on rich soils
Flowers:
Up to 15 mm long, with a tubular, blue corolla, and light-coloured veins on the three-lobed lower lip. The hairy calyx is much shorter, divided into triangular lobes. Flowers form as whorls at the upper leaf nodes, and are subtended by a pair of leaf-like bracts
Leaves:
Opposite, ovate, shiny, up to 7 cm long; in a basal rosette and a few opposite pairs along the purplish stem, which is square in cross-section and hairy on two opposite sides
Season:
April to May
Rarity:
★★★★★
