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Medicago littoralis Loisel.
Strand Medic

Reference
Not.Fl.France 118-119 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Alien to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate annual, herb. Fl. yellow, Aug to Dec. White, grey or black sand, limestone. Hills, sand dunes, road verges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 17 August 2007

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, herb. Stems terete or flattened, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 10-35 mm long, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire, leaflets 3, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked. Corolla uniformly coloured, yellow. Stamens ten. Fruit 7-9 mm long, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in August, September, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 17 April 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Merredin, Perth.
IMCRA Regions
Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bunbury, Cockburn, Joondalup, Moora, Narembeen, Perth, South Perth.