Annual or short-lived perennial herb ; up to 50 cm high , with shallow taproot . Stems prostrate or ascending , much branched , light green or reddish green , ± pubescent . Leaves 3-foliolate , alternate ; leaflets cuneate-obovate , pubescent on both surfaces ; stipules green , cordate on the free side at the base , lanceolate , toothed ; petiole very short in the upper leaves , up to 2 . 5 cm in the lower leaves . Inflorescence usually many-flowered in small heads , . Flowers bright yellow , tiny ; calyx pubescent , 1–1 . 5 mm long ; corolla 2 . 5–3 mm long , yellow . Fruit pod , ± 3 by 2 mm , strongly veined , curved through 180° , sparsely pubescent , black when ripe , 1-seeded . Seeds brown , ovoid and smooth . (Ref . POWO ; 2022) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Lupularia parviflora Opiz
Lupulina aurata Noulet
Medica lupulina (L.) Scop.
Medicula lupulina (L.) Medik.
Melilotus lupulinus (L.) Trautv.
Trifolium lupulinum (L.) Savi
No data
maintenanceAr.Item1
Black Medick
Nonesuch
Black Nonesuch
Black Medic Clover
Hop Clover
Hop Medic
Black Clover
Black Hay
Blackweed
English Trefoil
Hop Trefoil
Yellow Trefoil
Not used traditionally.
*POWO (2022). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org *https://en.wikipedia.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *http://southwestdesertflora.com *Patzelt, A., Harrison, T., Knees, S.G. & Hartley, L.A. (2014). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXI. New records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 71: 161-180.
