Skye Flora

Black Medick


Medicago lupulina

 

Medicago lupulina

Photo © Carl Farmer
(7 Sep 2001 Cocklawburn, Northumbria)

Rare in Skye, casual on bare ground or in grass

Flowers c 2.5 cm long, flowerheads 5-8 mm

Skye ID: Similar to Lesser Trefoil and Hop Trefoil, though leaves are closer to the size of clover leaves.  Unlike those species, leaves have minute point at tip.

Other features: Petals soon fall, do not cover pods as in Trefoils.  Pods are coiled, quite unlike Trefoils, black when ripe, and in elongated, not globular, heads

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  Medicago lupulina

Photo © Carl Farmer
(11 Jun 2002 Seahouses, Northumbria)

 
     
     
  Medicago lupulina

Photo © Carl Farmer
(8 Jun 2002 Berwick-upon-Tweed)

 
     

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