| Medicago hispida Gaertn. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Description | Procumbent, glabrous or nearly so; leaflets cuneate-obovate to obcordate, serrate toward tip; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, laciniate; peduncles equaling petioles; flowers yellow, about 3 mm long; pods flat, coiled 2-3 times, strongly reticulate, with double row of slightly hooked or curved spines. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places; introduced. Described from southern Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Introduced in many countries of the world; reliable circumpolar map cannot be prepared. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.