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Latin (Botanical) name: Medicago sativa L.

Family name: Leguminosae.

Common name: Alfalfa, Lucerne, Berseem hegaazi.

Origin: Egypt.

Plant description:

LEGUMINOSAE A. Juss. Flowers irregular, papilionaceous, with standard, keel and wings (Papilionoideae). Leaves 3 foliolate. Leaflets not stipuled. Corolla deciduous, legume exposed. Leaflets dentate or serrate. Legume spirally twisted, often spiny. MEDICAGO: Leaves 3 foliolate with dentate leaflets. Flowers in short racemes or in heads. Legume spirally twisted, at least at the tip. Flowers blue to purple MEDICAGO SATIVA L.: Pubescent, up to 80 cm. with obovate to linear leaves, dentate at apex. Racemes short, dense, up to 40 flowered. Legume small, spineless. Perennial.

Subsp. COERULEA (Less. Ex Ledeb.) Schmalh. : Flowers 5-9 mm. long, fruits less than 5 mm. diameter (in type flowers 6-12 mm., fruits 5-9 mm.).

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds), cultivated perennial.

Similar species: Trifolium alexandrinum.

Species List

Genus.

Botanical Family.

Product Photo. 

Alfalfa

Anise seed

Atrillal, Bishop's Weed

Basil

Beet

Caltrops, Tribulus

Celery

Chamomile, Matricaria

Clover, Egyptian

Coriander

Croton

Epazote

Fennel seed

Harmala, African rue

Hibiscus (Karkade)

Milk thistle

Nut grass

Plantain

Ploughmans spikenard

Saltbush

Thistle, Sonchus

Zilla

Zygophyllum

Chenopodiaceae.

Compositae.

Cruciferae.

Cyperaceae.

Euphorbiaceae.

Gramineae.

Labiatae.

Plantaginaceae.

Sterculiaceae.

Umbelliferae.

Zygophyllaceae.