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  • COMMON NAME: Alfalfa, Lucerne.
  • ARABIC: البرسيم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Medicago sativa L.
  • SYNONYMS: Medicago afganica
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F) Apiculture (A) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production. It is characterized by containing many vitamins, proteins and minerals from other sources of forage.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonimage/id123568/?taxonid=40032 https://www.floraofqatar.com/medicago_sativa.htm
Increases appetite, increases vitality, and helps gain weight. It increases the growth rate of livestock and improved their health. Soil fertilization and protection from erosion. Honey nectar plants.

Erect, annual or perennial herb, 20-80 cm high, pubescent to subglabrous, much branched, pale green, stipules 4-8 mm long, lanceolate-acuminate. Leaflets 5-20 mm long, 3-8 mm broad, obovate to oblong, dentate at apex, cuneate below, the terminal leaflet larger than the laterals; petiole 5-12 mm long. Inflorescence 3-5 cm long, a peduncled raceme, peduncle much longer than petiole. Pedicels as long as the setaceous membranous bracts. Calyx 4-6 mm long, teath as long as the tube, sparsely appressed-hairy. Corolla 5-12 mm long, blue to violet. Pod falcate or spiral, with 2-3 lax coils, more or less glabrous, 8-18 seeded. Seeds ovoid to deltoid, brownish, 1.5-2.5 mm long, smooth. Flowering from May-June.  

sandy soil and roadsides.
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