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.