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Medicago sativa - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Mosteiro de Tibães, Mire de Tibães, Braga, Portugal; 7/2010 © Jörn Germer

Medicago sativa - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Mosteiro de Tibães, Mire de Tibães, Braga, Portugal; 7/2010 © Jörn Germer

Medicago sativa - Upper surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper surface of leaf; Mosteiro de Tibães, Mire de Tibães, Braga, Portugal; 7/2010 © Jörn Germer

Medicago sativa - Lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Lower surface of leaf; Mosteiro de Tibães, Mire de Tibães, Braga, Portugal; 7/2010 © Jörn Germer

Medicago sativa - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Mosteiro de Tibães, Mire de Tibães, Braga, Portugal; 7/2010 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1415
Date of entry: 21.10.2010
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Alfalfa

German: Saat-Luzerne

Mandarin: 紫苜蓿 (zi mu xu)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2598)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2495)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2110)

      Order: Fabales (237)

        Family: Fabaceae (237)(family description)

          Genus: Medicago (8)

            Epithet: sativa L. (6)

sativa => sown, planted, cultivated, not wild

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habit: herb

Flower colour: blue, purple, violet

External links

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