Medicago sativa

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Habitus and growth type

  • Plant height [m]: 0.52
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  • Life span: Perennial
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  • Life form: Hemicryptophyte
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  • Spinescence: not spinescent
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Leaf

  • Specific leaf area [mm2/mg]: 21.32
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Flower

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

  • Seed mass [mg]: 2.37
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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: archeophyte
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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: Mesotrophic
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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: 4.4
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  • Reaction indicator value: 7.4
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  • Nutrient indicator value: 5.7
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  • Salinity indicator value: 0.1
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Habitat and sociology

  • EUNIS habitat

  • Diagnostic species of EUNIS habitats: S94 Semi-desert riparian scrub
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  • Broad habitat

  • Occurrence in broad habitats: Grassland (non-alpine, non-saline), Semi-desert, Scrub, Synanthropic
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Distribution

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