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Scientific name:

Medicago minima

Vernacular name:

Medick, Bur


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Scientific name: Medicago minima (L.) Bartal.

Diagnostic features
Procumbent annual to 20(40)cm, densely pubescent.
Stipules entire to denticulate.
Flowers 1-6, 2.5-4.5mm, yellow.
Fruits of 3-5 coils, often sparsely pubescent, usually with slender spines grooved near base.

Chromosome number: (2n=16).

Habitat
Native; sandy heaths and dunes and shingle by sea.

Distribution
Very local in East England from Kent to Norfolk, Jersey; also casual throughout most of Britain, often as wool-alien.

This species is keyed out on Page 2980 in the Text Key.

Medicago minima (Medick, Bur)
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