| Scientific Name: | Medicago lupulina |
| Common Name: | black medic |
| Family Name: | Fabaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true), Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | < 0.1m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | n/a |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Trifoliate (ternate), Elliptic, Obovate, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Yellow, May-Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Legume, Brown, Black, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves compound, each with three oval leaflets, most 4-7mm long x 3-5mm wide (center leaflet usually larger and has a longer petiole), margin toothed towards the apex; flowers small, yellow, grouped in compact racemes, 2-4(-8)mm wide. | |