Medicago falcata

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Habitus and growth type

  • Plant height [m]: 0.42
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  • Life span: Perennial
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  • Life form: Hemicryptophyte
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Leaf

  • Specific leaf area [mm2/mg]: 18.4
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Flower

  • Flowering period: March-July
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Fruit, seed and dispersal

  • Seed mass [mg]: 1.78
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  • Dispersal mode: Local non-specific dispersal, Anthropochory
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  • Dispersal distance class: 2, 7
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Trophic mode

  • Parasitism and mycoheterotrophy: autotroph
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  • Carnivory: non-carnivorous
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  • Symbiotic nitrogen fixation: symbiosis with rhizobia
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Taxon origin

  • Origin in Europe: native
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Ecology

  • Environmental relationships

  • Substrate humidity relationship: Dry
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  • Substrate reaction relationship: Alkaline
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  • Nutrient relationship: Oligotrophic
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  • Salinity relationship: Non-saline
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  • Ellenberg-type indicator values

  • Light indicator value: 8
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  • Moisture indicator value: 4
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  • Reaction indicator value: 8.2
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  • Salinity indicator value: 0.2
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  • Disturbance indicator values

  • Disturbance frequency: 1.32
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  • Disturbance frequency (herb layer): 1.86
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  • Disturbance severity: 0.52
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  • Disturbance severity (herb layer): 0.49
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  • Mowing frequency: 0.75
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  • Grazing pressure: 0.29
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  • Soil disturbance: 0.2
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Habitat and sociology

  • Syntaxon

  • Diagnostic species of phytosociological classes: DA (FES) Festuco-Brometea, JD (AMM) Ammophiletea arundinaceae
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  • EUNIS habitat

  • Broad habitat

  • Occurrence in broad habitats: Coastal beach, dune or shingle, Coastal cliff, Grassland (non-alpine, non-saline), Scrub, Synanthropic
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Distribution

  • Continentality amplitude: 8
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  • Country-based map: Euro+Med Plantbase

No subordinate taxa were found for this item.

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