Medicago
Family: Fabaceae
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Max Licher
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Cal-tube campanulate, the 5 lobes subequal; standard obovate or oblong, longer than the oblong erect wings, these with a prominent spur on the surface and a large retrorse basilateral lobe; keel blunt, shorter than and adherent to the wings; stamens 10, diadelphous, all free from the cor; style short; pod straight to more often ±coiled, usually indehiscent, 1-several-seeded; herbs with 3-foliolate, serrulate lvs, the terminal lfl stalked; fls discharging pollen by an explosive trip-mechanism, small, yellow or blue, in axillary heads or short head-like racemes. 80, Old World, mainly Eurasia.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Medicago aculeata
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Medicago agropyretorum
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Medicago arabica
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Medicago arborea
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Medicago aschersoniana
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Medicago blancheana
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Medicago brachyacantha
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Medicago brachycarpa
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Medicago cancellata
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Medicago carstiensis
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Medicago ciliaris
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Medicago coronata
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Medicago crassipes
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Medicago disciformis
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Medicago doliata
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Medicago dubia
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Medicago falcata
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Medicago fischeriana
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Medicago granadensis
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Medicago heldreichii
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Medicago hybrida
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Medicago hypogaea
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Medicago intertexta
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Medicago italica
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Medicago laciniata
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Medicago littoralis
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Medicago lupulina
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Medicago maculata
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Medicago marina
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Medicago maritima
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Medicago meyeri
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Medicago minima
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Medicago monantha
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Medicago monspeliaca
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Medicago murex
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Medicago muricata
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Medicago nigra
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Medicago noeana
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Medicago obscura
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Medicago orbicularis
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Medicago orthoceras
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Medicago papillosa
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Medicago persica
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Medicago platycarpos
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Medicago polyceratia
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Medicago polymorpha
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Medicago popovii
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Medicago praecox
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Medicago prostrata
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Medicago radiata
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