Bur clover
Medicago polymorpha L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called Burclover, California burclover, Burr medic, Toothed Medick, Bur medick
Formerly Medica apiculata, Medica bimuricata, Medica denticulata, Medica pentacycla, and 28 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Europe to C. Asia and W. Nepal, N. & NE. Trop. Africa to Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 61 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Carretilla, Carretón cadillo, Cuartillita
- root
- MEDPOL, Tł’oh azee
- Portuguese
- Carrapiço
- French
- Luzerne hérissée, Luzerne polymorphe, Luzerne à fruits nombreux
- Hebrew
- אספסת מצויה
- Czech
- tolice mnohotvará
- Chinese
- 苜蓿, 南苜蓿, 多型苜蓿
- Finnish
- piikkimailanen
- Arabic
- فصة متعددة الأشكال, فصة شائكة
- Russian
- Люцерна чёрная, Люцерна изменчивая, Люцерна многообразная
- Japanese
- ウマゴヤシ
- Swedish
- tagglusern
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Medicago polymorpha (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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