Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : medmi
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Leguminosae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: bur medick
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Zwerg-Schneckenklee ; ES : medicago minimo ; FR : luzerne naine ; IT : erba medica minima ; PT : luzerna-pequena ; EN : bur medick ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons elliptic to ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.
- First leaf rounded, shortly acute at the apex; the later 3-foliolate.
- Height: 5-40 cm. Plant covered with short hairs.
- Stem angular, spreading or ascending.
- Leaflets toothed above, leaflets of the upper and median leaves often truncate at the apex, the lower cordate. Blade of leaflets very hairy, more or less silvery. Stipules entire, shortly toothed.
- Flowers yellow isolated or in 2-6 on a flowering branch ended with a little awn flowerless. Standard longer than the keel and keel longer than the wings.
- Fruit : hairy pod, somewhat globose, in a spiral of 4-5 turns surrounded by numerous erect hooked spines. Fruit indehiscent.
- Good melliferous plant.
- Risk of confusion with hairy species and with species of Medicago having entire or toothed stipules ( Medicago lupulina L.).
- Biological type: annual.
Mistake with: Medicago lupulina , Medicago
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Present
Present
Rare
