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medicks
Medicago
Medicago is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as medick or burclover, in the legume (Fabaceae) family. It contains at least 87 species and is distributed mainly around the Mediterranean basin. The best-known member of the genus is alfalfa (M. sativa), an important forage crop, and the genus name is based on the Latin name for that plant, medica, from Greek: μηδική (πόα) median (grass). Most members of the genus are low, creeping herbs, resembling...
28 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Shamrock Medicks
sectionSpirocarpos
Medicago
sectionMedicago
Arabicae
sectionArabicae
Orbiculares
sectionOrbiculares
Buceras
sectionBuceras
Platycarpae
sectionPlatycarpae
Hymenocarpos
sectionHymenocarpos
Lunatae
sectionLunatae
Carstienses
sectionCarstienses
Medicago rigiduloides
speciesMedicago rigiduloides
Geocarpa
sectionGeocarpa
Medicago pamphylica
speciesMedicago pamphylica
Heynianae
sectionHeynianae
Medicago phrygia
speciesMedicago phrygia
Lanigerae
sectionLanigerae
Medicago karatschaica
speciesMedicago karatschaica
Medicago meyeri
speciesMedicago meyeri
Medicago ovalis
speciesMedicago ovalis
Medicago heldreichii
speciesMedicago heldreichii
Medicago rigida
speciesMedicago rigida
Medicago hemicoerulea
speciesMedicago hemicoerulea
Medicago carica
speciesMedicago carica
Pectinatae
sectionPectinatae
Medicago persica
speciesMedicago persica
Medicago rhodopea
speciesMedicago rhodopea
Medicago arenicola
speciesMedicago arenicola
Medicago peregrina
speciesMedicago peregrina
Medicago bonarotiana
speciesMedicago bonarotiana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.618
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.112
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Medicago in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 53152.