Ajuga chamaepitys

Yellow bugle ( Ajuga chamaepitys )

The Yellow Bugle or field - bugle ( Ajuga chamaepitys (L.) Schreb, Syn. Chamaepitys Teucrium L.) is an annual, rarely two or perennial flowering plant in the mint family ( Lamiaceae).

Description

This herb smells aromatic. The highly branched, often prostrate plant usually only achieved growth heights of 5-15 cm. But you can have deep roots up to 40 cm. In contrast to most labiates the opposite, 1-3 cm long, hairy leaves of the Yellow Günsels are divided into three long, linealische tip.

The lemon yellow, often reddish-brown flowers are drawn individually, sometimes in pairs in the leaf axils. They occur between May and September. The crown with a very small upper lip and lower lip usually much longer reaches 7 to 15 mm in length.

The chromosome number is 2n = 28

Occurrence

The home of the Yellow Günsels is located in southern Europe, the Mediterranean region, southwest Asia and northwest Africa. In Germany, where he immigrated as archaeophyte, it grows mainly in fields or short-lived weeds corridors on calcareous, easily warmed floors between Main and Danube, and in Thuringia and Saxony -Anhalt.

It is a characteristic species of the association of poppy fields ( Caucalidion lappulae ), but can also occur in societies of the Association Alysso - Sedion - albi. Overall, the Yellow bugle but declined sharply and in the Red List of endangered species in Germany, especially as a result of intensive farming and increased nitrogen entry in Class 3 ( "endangered" ) classified. In the Mediterranean region, however, he is unharmed.

Subspecies (selection)

Especially in the eastern part of the distribution area of the Yellow bugle is very rich in form. Partial several subspecies are distinguished:

• Ajuga chamaepitys (L.) Schreb. subsp. chamaepitys: History: Western and Central Europe, Italy, including Sicily.
• Ajuga chamaepitys subsp. chia ( Schreb. ) Arcang. ( Syn: Ajuga chia Schreb. ): History: Southeastern Europe and Eastern Europe and north to about 53 ° in eastern Russia.
• Ajuga chamaepitys subsp. tridactylites ( Gingins ex Benth. ) PHDavis, occurs in the Middle East.

Trivial names

Other names for the Yellow - Günsel are, or were, some of them only regional: Birnskün, black Cipres, Erdkyfer, Erdpin, Erdwyrauch, Field cypress, large germander, small germander ( Old High German ), small Gamanderlein ( Old High German ), Go Wurz ( Old High German ) Gihtwurz ( Old High German ), gout Wurz ( middle High German ), Gichwurz ( middle High German ), gout Word ( middle Low German ), Gitword ( middle Low German ), Horhave ( Old High German ), Karse, small Loig, The Roman Kole, Romes, Romesch, Rumesch, Schlafkräutlein, sleep herb Schlagkräutlein, impact herb Wittkrud, Zeitheid and time herb.