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Scientific name:

Medicago truncatula

Vernacular name:

Medick, Strong-spined


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Strong-spined Medick

Scientific name: Medicago truncatula Gaertn.

Diagnostic features
Procumbent to scrambling annual to 50cm, with long hairs.
Stipules deeply dentate to laciniate.
Flowers 1-3, 5-6mm, yellow.
Fruits of 3-6 coils, with sparse long hairs, with very stout ungrooved spines.

Chromosome number: (2n=16).

Habitat
Introduced-casual; in waste places near origin of seed; rather scarce wool-alien, common tan-bark alien.

Distribution
Scattered and sporadic in Britain; Mediterranean.

This species is keyed out on Page 2978 in the Text Key.

Medicago truncatula
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