Common Bugle

St. Lawrence plant
The bugle (scientific name Ajuga reptans) is also known as St. Lawrence plant. This small plant belongs to the Lamiaceae family (Labiatae) and reaches a height of 10-20 cm. In spring In spring, it produces numerous runners or creeping stems with roots from the base of the stem, allowing it to spread widely in damp meadows and form dense carpets of blue flowers and shiny green leaves.
From May to August the inflorescences appear ?? about 15 cm tall, with beautiful blue-violet flowers, suffused with white. Pollination takes place via insects ??.
⁉️ Did you know? ?
The bugle was considered by medieval herbalists a real panacea, so much so that it was said: “whoever has the bugle and the sanicula can make a mockery of the surgeon”. It was believed to heal all kinds of wounds, blows and cuts, as well as ulcers and broken bones.
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