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bugle (Ajuga sp.)
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bugle

Ajuga sp. (accepted: Ajuga) · Lamiaceae · all Ajuga records · also called Carpet Bugle, Bugleweed · Wikipedia

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Form
groundcover
Rated in
Louisiana; Yavapai County, Arizona
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Louisiana; Yavapai County, Arizona
Typed publication scope: 2 scopes across 2 cited fire sources
  • Firewise Landscaping (Hammond Research Station) · Official scoped edition
    • LA; partial normalized coverage · 2008-12-02

      LSU AgCenter calls these 31 ornamentals commonly used in Louisiana and recommended for Louisiana firewise landscaping efforts. FireApproved publishes 31 exact source owners, mostly at the source's genus grain. Undocumented curation remains corroborative and is not site suitability.

  • Fire-Resistant and Fire-Prone Plants Common to Yavapai County (Bulletin 34) · Official scoped edition
    • Yavapai County (AZ footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2025-03-14

      University of Arizona Cooperative Extension authors Bulletin 34 for Yavapai County. FireApproved publishes 198 exact source owners from its resistant and prone tables and keeps the county boundary visible. County publication scope is regional Arizona context, never statewide scope.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in AZ.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Recommends (2)

Corroboration (2 rows from 2 sources)

Fire-resistant groundcovers instead

Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Ajuga sp. (Carpet Bugle, Bugleweed). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/ajuga/. Last verified 2026-08-23.