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Medicago minima

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Common names

woolly bur medick

Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Flower colours

Yellow

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Medicago

Family

Fabaceae

Authority

Medicago minima (L.) Bartal.

Endemic family

Ecology

Year naturalised

1940

Origin

Canary Is, Europe to W. Asia, N. Africa

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.

minima: Very small

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