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Ajuga reptans L.

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Ajuga reptans L., Sp. Pl. 561 (1753)
Ajuga reptans L.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
561
ICN
Ajuga reptans L.
species
Ajuga reptans

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reptans

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Ajuga reptans L.

Perennial; vegetative shoots ± procumbent and forming long, glabrous, aerial stolons. Lvs with winged petioles 1-2 cm long. Lamina 1.5-5 × 0.7-3 cm, broad-elliptic to elliptic-obovate or oblong, glabrous or becoming so, undulate or shallowly and broadly crenate; apex obtuse or rounded. Flowering stems to c. 25 cm tall, erect, densely hairy on 2 sides. Lower bracts similar to lvs but sessile and entire, tinged blue. Verticels crowded towards apex, c. 6-flowered. Calyx 4-5 mm long; teeth exceeding tube, lanceolate to elliptic, purplish, acute, with long white cilia. Corolla 13-17 mm long, blue with darker veins; tube > calyx, hairy outside; upper lip emarginate. Filaments glandular-puberulent, blue. Style blue. Nutlets not seen.

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Ajuga reptans L.
Ajuga reptans L.
Ajuga reptans L.

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
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Ajuga reptans L.
France
Ajuga reptans L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Ajuga reptans L.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Ajuga reptans L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Ajuga reptans L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Ajuga reptans L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Ajuga reptans L.
United Kingdom

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1 January 2000
25 February 2022
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