Fabaceae
Spotted medick
Medicago arabica
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Medicago
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Common names
By language (25)
- Arabic
- فصة عربية
- Armenian
- Առվույտ արաբական
- arz
- فصه عربيه
- Bulgarian
- Арабска люцерна
- Catalan
- Herba de la taca
- Chinese
- 褐斑苜蓿, 紫斑苜蓿, 阿拉伯苜蓿
- Czech
- Tolice arabská
- Dutch
- Gevlekte rupsklaver
- English
- Spotted medick, Heart clover, Spotted burclover
- Esperanto
- Arabia medikago
- Estonian
- Araabia lutsern
- Finnish
- Laikkumailanen
- French
- Luzerne d'Arabie, Luzerne tachée
- German
- Arabischer Schneckenklee, Gefleckter Schneckenklee
- hsb
- Arabiska šlinčina
- Igbo
- Heart clover, Spotted burclover, Spotted medick
- Japanese
- メディカゴ・アラビカ
- Latvian
- Arābijas lucerna
- Persian
- یونجه عربی
- Slovenian
- Arabska meteljka
- Spanish
- Carretón manchado, Lucerna de Arabia, Mielga pintada, Trebol manchado, Trebol silvestre, Trébol manchado, Trébol silvestre
- Swedish
- Fläcklusern
- Ukrainian
- Люцерна арабська
- Vietnamese
- Linh lăng Ả Rập
- Welsh
- Maglys brith
Synonyms
- Medica arabica (L.) Medik.
- Medica echinata Lam.
- Medica maculata Bubani
- Medicago arabica f. elegans Kožuharov
- Medicago arabica f. heptacycla Urb.
- Medicago arabica f. pastoralis Kožuharov
- Medicago arabica f. purpurea Burkart
- Medicago arabica subsp. inermis Ricker
- Medicago arabica var. longispina Rouy
- Medicago arabica var. maculata Maire
- Medicago arabica var. minor Lojac. & Pojark.
- Medicago cordata Desr.
- Medicago coronata Pall. ex M.Bieb.
- Medicago maculata Willd.
- Medicago maculata Sibth.
- Medicago maculata Hook. & Arn.
- Medicago maculata var. tetraphylla Desp.
- Medicago maculata var. tetraphylla N.H.F.Desp.
- Medicago oxalioides Schur
- Medicago polymorpha var. arabica L.
- Medicago talyschensis Latsch.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
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Photo: Luis nunes alberto, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Bernard SOULIER, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
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Photo: Amada44, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.