Medicago polymorpha L., 1753

Common names

🇬🇧 Toothed Medick
🇫🇷 Luzerne polymorphe, Luzerne à fruits nombreux

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Superrosids
Clade: Rosids
Clade: Fabids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Medicago
Species: Medicago polymorpha

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with M. arabica (L.) Huds., 1762, whose leaves are usually spotted of purplish black, while those of M. polymorpha are fully green or sometimes spotted of white.

Photographs

img/medicago-polymorpha.webp — Medicago polymorpha

Sources

Osborne, J. (2011). Medicago polymorpha (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2011. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/176597/7273539
Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 740). Biotope.