OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Medicago polymorpha   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Medicago polymorpha   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Medicago polymorpha

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Medicago polymorpha

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-16-006:

Medicago polymorpha   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Medicago hispida

 

COMMON NAME:
Toothed Medick, Smooth Bur-clover


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image of Medicago polymorpha, Toothed Medick, Smooth Bur-clover

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_mehi_001_lvd

        

image of Medicago polymorpha, Toothed Medick, Smooth Bur-clover

JK Marlow    jkm200229_2903

February    Horry County    SC

Myrtle Beach State Park

Racemes capitate, 1-8 flowered. Peduncles 1-3cm. Petals yellow, 2.5-4mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Medicago polymorpha, Toothed Medick, Smooth Bur-clover

JK Marlow    jkm200229_2906

February    Horry County    SC

Myrtle Beach State Park

Leaflets 1-2× long as wide, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

image of Medicago polymorpha, Toothed Medick, Smooth Bur-clover

JK Marlow    jkm200229_2910

February    Horry County    SC

Myrtle Beach State Park

Stipules deeply lacerate, incised almost to the middle or beyond, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Medicago polymorpha, Toothed Medick, Smooth Bur-clover

JK Marlow    jkm200229_2923

February    Georgetown County    SC

East Bay Park

Leaflets not marked with a central dark spot, tips not strongly notched, per Weakley's Flora (2020).


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image of Medicago polymorpha, Toothed Medick, Smooth Bur-clover

JK Marlow    jkm200229_2925

February    Georgetown County    SC

East Bay Park

Leaflets obovate to obcordate, mostly 6-15mm long, apically denticulate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Medicago polymorpha   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Medicago polymorpha   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Medicago polymorpha

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Medicago polymorpha

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-16-006:
Medicago polymorpha   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Medicago hispida

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4332

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Fields, roadsides, lawns, disturbed areas, vacant lots, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Mediterranean Europe

Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
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
Legume

 

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