Medicago coronata (L.) Bartal. is a plant in the Fabaceae family, order Fabales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

Photo of Medicago coronata (L.) Bartal. (Medicago coronata (L.) Bartal.)
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Medicago coronata (L.) Bartal.

Medicago coronata (L.) Bartal.

Crown medick (Medicago coronata) is a Medicago species from the Mediterranean that symbioses with nitrogen-fixing Sinorhizobium meliloti.

Family
Genus
Medicago
Order
Fabales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Medicago coronata (L.) Bartal.

Medicago coronata (L.) Bartal., commonly known as crown medick, is a plant species that belongs to the genus Medicago. This species is distributed across the entire Mediterranean basin. It forms a symbiotic relationship with Sinorhizobium meliloti, a bacterium that can carry out nitrogen fixation.

Photo: (c) Ori Fragman-Sapir, all rights reserved, uploaded by Ori Fragman-Sapir

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Fabales Fabaceae Medicago

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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