Toothed Medick
Scientific name: Medicago polymorpha L.
Diagnostic features
Procumbent to scrambling annual to 60cm, ± glabrous when mature.
Stipules laciniate.
Flowers 1-8, 3-4.5mm, yellow.
Fruits of 1.5-5(6) coils, glabrous, usually with rather slender spines grooved near base.
Chromosome number: (2n=14, 16).
Habitat
Native; very local in sandy ground near sea.
Distribution
Channel Islands, South England North to South Somerset and West Norfolk; also common casual throughout British Isles in waste places, often in wool.
This species is keyed out on Page 2981 in the Text Key.
Note
The species most often lacking fruit spines. |
