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Medicago lupulina (nonesuch; hop medic; black medic clover; Zurgijlef Tzargas; Yellow Trefoil; Trebol Amarillo; Minette; Luzerne Lupuline; Hopfenklee; Hop Clover; Black Medick; Black Medic)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Medicago lupulina, commonly known as black medick, nonesuch, or hop clover, is a familiar lawn plant belonging to the legume or clover family. Plants of the genus Medicago, or bur clovers, are closely related to the true clovers (Trifolium) and sweet clover (Melilotus). Like the true clovers, black medick has three leaflets and a small, yellow flower closely resembling those of the lesser trefoil. Black medick belongs to the same genus as alfalfa.
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Infraspecies

Medicago lupulina var. eriocarpa
Medicago lupulina var. lupulina
Medicago lupulina var. willdenowii

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Green
Flower Color [2]  Yellow
Foliage Color [2]  Dark Green
Fruit Color [2]  Brown
Bloom Period [2]  Summer
Dispersal Mode [5]  Zoochory
Drought Tolerance [2]  None
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [2]  None
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [2]  3 months 20 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [2]  High
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Fall
Growth Form [2]  Single Crown
Growth Period [2]  Spring, Fall, Winter
Growth Rate [2]  Moderate
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Annual/Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Bees, Lepidoptera, Bats
Propagation [2]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [2]  Slow
Root Depth [2]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [2]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [2]  Medium
Seeds Per [2]  265839 / lb (586076 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Decumbent
Structure [6]  Herb
Usage [3]  A good green manure plant, it is fairly deep rooted, has good resistance to 'Clover rot' but it is not very fast growing; It can be undersown with cereals, succeeding even in a wet season;
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  None
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Height [3]  18 inches (0.45 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 9 Low Temperature: 20 F° (-6.7 C°) → 30 F° (-1.1 C°)
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [4]  Mostly Dry
Water Use [2]  Moderate
Screening - Summer [2]  Porous
Screening - Winter [2]  Porous
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Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Apis mellifera (honey bee)[8]
Hypovoria hilaris[8]
Merodon clavipes[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Peronospora romanica[8]
Peronospora trifoliorum[8]
Uromyces pisi-sativi[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

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♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
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♦ 6Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Ecology of Commanster
♦ 10New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 11Comparatore, Viviana, and Cristina Yagueddú. Diet of the Greater Rhea (Rhea americana) in an agroecosystem of the Flooding Pampa, Argentina. Ornitologia Neotropical 18.2 (2007): 187-194.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0