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    Black Medick

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    Black Medick Quick Facts
    Name: Black Medick
    Scientific Name: Medicago lupulina
    Colors Black
    Shapes 2-3 mm
    Black medick belongs to the member of pea family or Fabaceae. It is a low trailing annual, biennial or short lived perennial which reaches 1 to 2 feet length. Stems are prostate, slender, four angled, branched at base and glabrous to hairy. Leaves are pinnately trifoliate. Leaflets are rounded, ovate, finely pubescent and ½ inch long. Flowers are small, bright yellow and rounded to slightly elongated and borne in dense clusters which measures ½ to ¾ inch long. Inflorescence is a rounded to slightly elongated cluster of 10 to 50 tiny flowers. Seeds are kidney shaped, gold or brown and 1/16 inches long.

    It is native to Europe, near east, north Africa and most of Asia including China, India and Korea. It is naturalized in central Asia, South Africa, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States and South America. It is found throughout United States including Alaska and Hawaii. It thrives well in dry to moist and well drained soils.

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    Flower

    Corolla is yellow, zygomorphic and 2–3 mm (0.08–0.12 in.) long and fused at base. Calyx is five lobed. Inflorescence is an axillary, globose-elongated, long stalked and dense raceme.

    Leaves

    Leaves are stalked, stipulate and alternate. Leaflets are obovate having notched tips and sharp pointed or tip with toothed margins.

    Fruit

    Fruits are kidney shaped, glabrous, net veined, coiled and 1.5-3 mm (0.06-0.12 in.) long. It is a one seeded, brownish black and indehiscent pod.

    Habitat

    Medicago lupulina is found in roadsides, lawns, waste ground, harbours, railway yards and shores.

    Culinary uses

    • Cook the seeds and leaves and use it as potherb.
    • Ground the seeds into powder.
    • Sprouted seeds are consumed.

    References:

    https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=503721#null

    http://www.hear.org/pier/species/medicago_lupulina.htm

    https://pfaf.org/User/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Medicago+lupulina

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicago_lupulina

    https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=MELU 

    https://wimastergardener.org/article/black-medic-medicago-lupulina/

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    Name Black Medick
    Scientific Name Medicago lupulina
    Common/English Name Black medick, hop clover, nonesuch
    Name in Other Languages Latvian:  Apinveida Lucerna;
    Lithuanian: Apynine Liucerne;
    Armenian: Arvuit Gailukanman;
    Afrikaans: hopmedicago;
    Chinese: tian lan mu xu;
    Danish: humle-sneglebælg;
    Dutch: hopperupsklaver;
    English: black medick, hop clover, black trefoil, trefoil, yellow trefoil;
    Finnish: nurmimailanen;
    French: lupuline, minette, luzerne lupuline, minette dorée;
    German: gelbklee, hopfenklee;
    Hungarian: komlós lucerna;
    Italian: lupolina;
    Japanese: kometsubu umagoyashi;
    Korean: jan gae ja ri;
    Nepalese: pahenlo pyauli;
    Norwegian: snegleskolm;
    Polish: lucerna nerkowata;
    Portuguese: alfalfa-lupulina, luzerna-preta, luzerna-lupulina, trevo-amarelo;
    Russian:  liutserna khmelevidnaia, liutserna khmelevaia;
    Slovenian: hmeljna meteljka.
    Spanish:-
    Mexico: alfalfa lupulina, carretilla
    Catalan: carretón, fenarola-menuda, herba de la desfeta, lupulina, melgó menut, meligón, mielga azafranada, mielga, mielga negra, trèvol;
    Swedish: humlelusern, humleluzern;
    Chinese: tian lan mu xu
    Plant Growth Habit Annual or short-lived perennial herbs
    Plant Size 1 to 2 feet length
    Stem Procumbent or ascending
    Flowering Season Late spring to early fall
    Flower Yellow, 2-3 mm
    Pod shape & size Black, 1.5 to 3 mm in diameter
    Seed Single, oval to kidney shaped, yellow to olive green, 2 mm long x I mm wide

    Black Medick Scientific Classification

    Scientific Name: Medicago lupulina

    Rank Scientific Name & (Common Name)
    Kingdom Plantae (Plants)
    Subkingdom Viridiplantae  (Green plants)
    Infrakingdom Streptophyta  (Land plants)
    Superdivision Embryophyta
    Division Tracheophyta  (Vascular plants, tracheophytes)
    Class Magnoliopsida
    Subclass Rosidae
    Order Fabales
    Family Fabaceae  (Peas, legumes)
    Genus Medicago L. (Alfalfa)
    Species Medicago lupulina L. (Black medick, black medic clover, black medic, hop clover, hop medic, nonesuch, yellow trefoil)
    Synonyms
    • Medica lupulina Scop.
    • Medicago appenina Woods
    • Medicago cupaniana Guss.
    • Medicago lupulina subsp. cupaniana (Guss.) Nyman
    • Medicago lupulina subsp. eurasiatica Braun-Blanq.
    • Medicago lupulina subsp. jalasii Rothm., 1963
    • Medicago lupulina subsp. lupulina
    • Medicago lupulina subsp. willdenowii (Mérat) Arcang., 1882
    • Medicago lupulina var. cupaniana (Guss.) Boiss.
    • Medicago lupulina var. glanduligera Neumann
    • Medicago lupulina var. glandulosa Neilr.
    • Medicago lupulina var. glandulosa W.D.J.Koch
    • Medicago lupulina var. lupulina
    • Medicago lupulina var. unguiculata Ser., 1825
    • Medicago wildenowii Merat
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