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Lamiaceae
Ground-pine
Ajuga chamaepitys
Also known as Bugle weed, Yellow bugle, Ajuga chamaepitys, Bulga chamaepitys
Native Plants · Edibles & Herbs · Ground-Pine · Ajuga · Rock Garden · Groundcover · Medicinal Herb · Low Growing · Wildflower · Perennial · Mat Forming · Drought Adapted
Ground-pine is a low-growing, mat-forming perennial that prefers well-drained soil in sunny to partly shaded positions. Water regularly during the growing season, ensuring the soil does not become waterlogged. It is best suited to rock gardens or dry meadow plantings where it can spread naturally.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately, keeping soil evenly moist but not waterlogged · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Moderate
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 8–9
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Cutting
Hardiness
USDA 5a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 8 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Krym
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle
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