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Bugle, Ajuga reptans var atropurpurea
Photographs: Inchigeela, Co. Cork

Bugle (garden cultivar)
Ajuga reptans 'Atropurpurea'
Family: Lamiaceae

Flowering April-June. Perennial. Garden escape.

A garden cultivar of the native Bugle, Ajuga repens.
Deepish-blue flowers on erect flowering stems, the bracts tinged coppery-purplish. The mid to dark green leaves are flushed copper or deep-purplish. Creeping stolons.

Prefers moist, slightly shaded ground. Very occasionally recorded as a garden escape, discard or relic of cultivation.

Bugle, Ajuga reptans var atropurpurea

Bugle, Ajuga reptans var atropurpurea
Bugle, Ajuga reptans 'Atropurpurea'

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