Medicago sativa: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Medicago
Species: Medicago sativa
Scientific Name: Medicago sativa

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Alfalfa

Alfalfa () (Medicago sativa), also called lucerne, is a perennial flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae. It is cultivated as an important forage crop in many countries around the world and is used for grazing, hay, and silage, as well as a green manure and cover crop. The name alfalfa is used in North America, whereas the name lucerne is more commonly used in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. The plant superficially resembles clover (a cousin in the same family), especially while young, when trifoliate leaves comprising round leaflets predominate. Later in maturity, leaflets are elongated. It has clusters of small purple flowers followed by fruits spiraled in two to three turns containing 10–20 seeds. Alfalfa is native to warmer temperate climates. It has been cultivated as livestock fodder since at least the era of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

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Medicago sativa in languages:

Afrikaans: Lusern
Arabic: برسيم حجازي
Arabic: فصة معمرة
Arabic: فصفصة
Belarusian: Люцэрна пасяўная або сіняя
Bokmål: blålusern
Catalan: Userda
Chinese: 紫苜蓿
Croatian: Lucerna
Czech: tolice vojtěška
Danish: Lucerne
Dutch: Luzerne
English: Alfalfa
English: Lucerne
Estonian: harilik lutsern
Finnish: sinimailanen
French: Luzerne
French: Luzerne cultivée
German: Luzerne
Hebrew: אספסת תרבותית
Hungarian: takarmánylucerna
Italian: erba medica
Italian: erba Spagna
Italian: Alfalfa
Japanese: ムラサキウマゴヤシ
Japanese: アルファルファ
Korean: 자주개자리
Latvian: Sējas lucerna
Lithuanian: Mėlynžiedė liucerna
Modern Greek: Τριφύλλι Αλφάλφα
Polish: Lucerna siewna
Portuguese: Luzerna
Portuguese: Alfafa
Portuguese: Alfalfa
Russian: Люцерна посевная
Slovene: lucerna
Swedish: foderlusern
Turkish: alfaalfa
Ukrainian: Люцерна посівна

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Medicago sativa: taxon details and analytics

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Alfalfa

Medicago sativa in languages:

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Medicago sativa: taxon details and analytics

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Alfalfa

Medicago sativa in languages:

Images from inaturalist.org observations:

Parent Taxon

Sibling Taxa

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