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Scientific name:

Medicago lupulina

Vernacular name:

Medick, Black


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Scientific name: Medicago lupulina L.

Diagnostic features
Procumbent to scrambling annual or short-lived perennial to 80cm.
Leaves pubescent.
Stipules shallowly serrate.
Flowers numerous in compact short racemes, yellow, 2-3mm.
Fruits in c.1 coil, spineless, pubescent or glabrous, 1.5-3mm across, black when ripe, 1-seeded.

Chromosome number: 2n=16.

Habitat
Native; grassy places and rough ground.

Distribution
Common throughout most of British Isles except parts of Scotland and North Ireland.

This species is keyed out on Page 2974 in the Text Key.

Note
See Trifolium dubium for differences.

Medicago lupulina (Medick, Black)
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