Medicago polymorpha
Family: Fabaceae
Plant Description: Annual with reclining or prostrate stems to 40 cm or longer; sprawling. Leaves, alternate, 3-foliate with leaflets 8-16 mm long. Flowers few per head, strongly bilateral, pea shaped, the upper petals 4-5 mm long, yellow. Legumes curled up, prickly.
Plant Trivia: Native to Eurasia. Handling plant and touching eyes can cause eye irritation.
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Key to the species of Medicago:
- Flowers purple-violet………………………………………………………………………M. sativa
Flowers yellow………………………………………………………………………………………………2
2. Fruits prickly…………………………………………………………………………M. polymorpha
Fruits smooth……………………………………………………………………………………………….3
3. Leaflets glabrous…………………………………………………………………..M. orbicularis
Leaflets hairy……………………………………………………………………………..M. lupulina
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