Pan India Bouquets

Medicago sativa L.

Family : Fabaceae
(Pea Or Bean Family)
Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
Subfamily : Faboideae
Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Medicago sativa L.
Common name : Alfalfa, Bastard medic, Buffal herb, Lucerne, Purple medic, Sand lucerne
Vernacular name : Vilayati ghas (Gujarati); Lusan ghas (Hindi); Lusarne soppu, Vilaayiti hullu (Kannada); Vilayati gavat (Marathi); Dureshta, Sinjhi (Oriya); Ashvabala (Sanskrit); Kutirai macal (Tamil)
Habit : Perennial herb
Habitat : Cultivated throughout India, often escaped to roadsides, fields, grasslands, and stream banks
Comments / notes : Cultivated on the hills.
Flower, Fruit : March-May
Distribution :
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
Native : Algeria, East European Russia, France, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krym, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia
Exotic/Native : Exotic
World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
Literature : Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 109
Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Medicago sativa. Downloaded on 7 December 2023.