Medicago arborea
Common names
tree medick
Biostatus
Exotic
Category
Vascular
Structural class
Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites
Flower colours
Yellow
Conservation status
Not applicable
Detailed taxonomy
Family
Ecology
Year naturalised
1958
Origin
Canary Is, S. Europe to Asia Minor
Other information
Etymology
medicago: Derived indirectly from the Persian name Media (an Iranian kingdom in existence from late second millennium BC to the first millennium BC), whence alfalfa allegedly originates.
arborea: From the Latin arbor ‘tree’, meaning tree-like
NVS code
The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.
MEDARB