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).
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Sources
Rhodes, L. (2016). Medicago sativa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2016. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T174725A19402449.en
Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 738). Biotope.