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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Medicago arabica   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Medicago arabica   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Medicago arabica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Medicago arabica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-16-005:

Medicago arabica   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Medicago arabica

 

COMMON NAME:
Spotted Medick, Spotted Bur-clover


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image of Medicago arabica, Spotted Medick, Spotted Bur-clover

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_mear_001_lvd

        

image of Medicago arabica, Spotted Medick, Spotted Bur-clover

JK Marlow    jkm120329_151

March    Greenville County    SC

Stipules shallowly lacerate, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Medicago arabica, Spotted Medick, Spotted Bur-clover

JK Marlow    jkm120329_155

March    Greenville County    SC

image of Medicago arabica, Spotted Medick, Spotted Bur-clover

JK Marlow    jkm120329_158

March    Greenville County    SC

Leaflets 0.7-1.1 x long as wide, leaflet tip usually strongly notched, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Medicago arabica, Spotted Medick, Spotted Bur-clover

JK Marlow    jkm120329_160

March    Greenville County    SC

Legume spirally coiled with a double row of curved spines 2-3mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Medicago arabica, Spotted Medick, Spotted Bur-clover

Roxanna Martin    rlm41810_358

April    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Medicago arabica, Spotted Medick, Spotted Bur-clover

Roxanna Martin    rlm42411_213

April    Spartanburg County    SC

Seed pods spirally twisted and covered with spines, per Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses (Murphy et al., 1992).

image of Medicago arabica, Spotted Medick, Spotted Bur-clover

Roxanna Martin    rlm4911_101

April    Spartanburg County    SC

Racemes typically 1-5 flowers. Peduncles 1-2.5cm. Petals yellow, 4-5mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Medicago arabica, Spotted Medick, Spotted Bur-clover

Roxanna Martin    rlm4911_103

April    Spartanburg County    SC

Leaflets usually with a conspicuous reddish-purple spot, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Medicago arabica   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Medicago arabica   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Medicago arabica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Medicago arabica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-16-005:
Medicago arabica   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Medicago arabica

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3464

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Mediterranean Europe

Uncommon (rare in GA Piedmont & Mountains, rare in NC)

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-toothed campanulate calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary

Inflorescence an axillary raceme

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Legume

 

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