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Medicago sativa L., 1753

Common names

  • 🇬🇧 Alfalfa
  • 🇫🇷 Luzerne cultivée

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 sativa

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

  • Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
  • Red List (Global): LC Least Concern

Notes

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

  • M. sativa nothosubsp. faurei Maire, 1933: subsp. glomerata × subsp. sativa, I;
  • M. sativa subsp. glomerata (Balb.) Rouy, 1899, P;
  • M. sativa subsp. sativa L., 1753, I.

Hybridizes with M. falcata L., 1753 to produce M. × varia Martyn, 1793, P (het. syn. M. sativa nothosubsp. media (Pers.) Schübl. & G.Martens, 1834).

Photographs

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