Carpet Bugleweed Invasive

How to kill bugleweed.

Carpet bugleweed invasive.

Ajuga reptans is also a component of purple moor grass and rush pastures a biodiversity action. Runners develop from the mother plants take root and produce new plants similar to the growth habit of strawberries. Carpet bugleweed grows rapidly by producing mats of foliage in rosettes. Home and garden information center home and garden mimeo hg88.

Ajuga reptans is commonly known as bugle blue bugle bugleherb bugleweed carpetweed carpet bugleweed and common bugle and traditionally but less commonly as st. Ajuga ajuga spp also known as carpet bugle or bugleweed is an adaptable low growing plant that forms a thick carpet of foliage often with a grayish green bronze or reddish tint the plant is covered with springtime blooms of blue purple violet white or pink depending on the variety. Invasive plant control in maryland. Maryland cooperative extension service.

Lawrence plant it is an herbaceous flowering plant in the mint family native to europe it is invasive in parts of north america. Bugleweed ajuga reptans also called common bugleweed is a fast growing herbaceous perennial ground cover the species name reptans means creeping although it produces beautiful flower spikes and is available in several different cultivars that work well in landscaping it can also make quite a nuisance of itself through its aggressive spreading via underground runners called stolens. Swearingen survey of invasive plants occurring on national park service lands 2000 2007. Although most varieties are relatively well behaved ajuga reptans is a rambunctious cultivar that.