Medicago scutellata (L.) Mill.

Spice Fruit detail

Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Medicago

Catalan common name: Melgó de botons.

Province distribution: Balearic Islands.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Cultivated fields.

Characteristics: Medicago scutellata is an annual herbaceous plant of the fields and roadsides. Can be identified by its fruits; which form a helix of snail-turns, do not have spiney emergences and are more or less hemishperical. Flowers during the months of April and May.