Ajuga australis

Austral Bugle at Wambrook, NSW

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Identification history

	Ajuga australis	12 Aug 2018	BettyDonWood
	Unidentified	23 Nov 2017	Mike

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6 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:

24 Nov 2017

I am fairly sure this is in the family Lamiaceae, but cannot key it to anything sensible. I also tried Plantaginaceae, the family which now includes a lot of what used to be in Scrophulariacea. No good either. I suspect someone needs to have a specimen in hand to get an ID.

Varanus wrote:

24 Nov 2017

Photo orientation may be upside down - possibly white Ajuga?

Mike wrote:

25 Nov 2017

Prostrate plant so orientation is a matter of what side of the plant I was on. Flowers were very small, probably a couple of mm.

BettyDonWood wrote:

25 Nov 2017

It might be an aberrant form of Scutellaria mollis, which Vicflora says is trailing rather than prostrate. it is the only Lamiaceae in my draft key to plants of SE NSW with white flowers that small (Plantnet says about 10 mm long). Scutellaria has a peculiar calyx, with a fold protruding from the upper lip.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

25 Nov 2017

Mike I think this is one to collect and take to Dave Albrecht at the Herbarium for ID - it has me stumped

rainer wrote:

12 Aug 2018

This is a white flowering plant of the grassland form of Ajuga australis. A. australis rarely throws mauve, pink or white “sports” and a particular form found in grasslands throughout the region is prostrate, rather than upright as seen in woodlands and forests. See p. 106 in Grassland Flora. The grassland form is particularly commonly encountered in Monaro grasslands, into which Wambrook falls.

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