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Learn more about Spotted Medick from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Medicago arabica
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Medicago arabica
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-16-005:
Medicago arabica
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Spotted Medick, Spotted Bur-clover
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Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Annual
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Uncommon (rare in GA Piedmont & Mtns, rare in NC)
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
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