Medicago

Accepted species 113 Documented here 27 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 113 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Medicago lupulina L. 7,591 documented
Medicago sativa L. 3,441 documented
Medicago polymorpha L. 2,277 documented
Medicago falcata L. 1,383 documented
Medicago arabica (L.) Huds. 1,110 documented
Medicago minima (L.) Bartal. 555 documented
Medicago orbicularis (L.) Bartal. 255 documented
Medicago marina L. 144 documented
Medicago truncatula Gaertn. 117 documented
Medicago littoralis Rohde ex Loisel. 99 documented
Medicago arborea L. 96 documented
Medicago platycarpos (L.) Trautv. 66 documented
Medicago monspeliaca (L.) Trautv. 35 documented
Medicago cretacea M.Bieb. 28 documented
Medicago turbinata (L.) All. 21 documented
Medicago scutellata (L.) Mill. 19 documented
Medicago disciformis DC. 17 documented
Medicago laciniata (L.) Mill. 17 documented
Medicago constricta Durieu 16 documented
Medicago rugosa Desr. 16 documented
Medicago rigidula (L.) All. 15 documented
Medicago prostrata Jacq. 12 documented
Medicago coronata (L.) Bartal. 10 documented
Medicago doliata Carmign. 10 documented
Medicago ciliaris (L.) All. 8 documented
Medicago monantha (C.A.Mey.) Trautv. 3 documented
Medicago praecox DC. 3 documented
Medicago brachycarpa Fisch. ex M.Bieb. 2 below the evidence gate
Medicago polyceratia (L.) Sauvages ex Trautv. 1 below the evidence gate
Medicago × blancheana Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago × canariensis Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago × casellasii P.Monts. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago × mixta Sennholz 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago × sabulensis H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago × varia Martyn 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago amethystina C.C.Gmel. ex Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago archiducis-nicolai Širj. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago arenicola (Hub.-Mor.) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago astroites (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Trautv. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago biflora (Griseb.) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago bonarotiana Arcang. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago cancellata M.Bieb. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago carica (Hub.-Mor.) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago carstiensis Wulfen 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago cochleata Pall. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago crassa Porta 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago crassipes (Boiss.) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago daghestanica Rupr. ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago decaisneana Tod. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago echinata Banks & Sol. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago edgeworthii Širj. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago fischeriana (Ser.) Trautv. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago glabra Aubl. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago globosa C.Presl 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago granadensis Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago halophila (Boiss.) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago heldreichii E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago heyniana Greuter 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago huberi E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago hybrida (Pourr.) Trautv. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago hybrida E.H.L.Krause 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago hypogaea E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago intertexta (L.) Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago isthmocarpa (Boiss. & Balansa) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago justischmidtii E.H.L.Krause 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago langeana Tod. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago lanigera C.Winkl. & B.Fedtsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago laxispira Heyn 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago lessingii Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex Kar. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago makranica Heyn 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago medicaginoides (Retz.) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago murex Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago muricoleptis Tineo 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago noeana Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago orthoceras (Kar. & Kir.) Trautv. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago ovalis (Boiss.) Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago pamphylica (Hub.-Mor. & Širj.) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago papillosa Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago paradoxa Spreng. ex Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago pedunculata Ehrenb. ex Sweet 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago pennata Schwägr. ex Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago persica (Boiss.) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago phrygia (Boiss. & Balansa) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago pilosa Schleich. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago pironae Vis. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago plicata (Boiss.) Širj. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago popovii (Korovin) Širj. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago radiata L. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago retrorsa (Boiss.) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago rhodopea Velen. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago rhytidiocarpa (Boiss. & Balansa) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago rigida (Boiss. & Balansa) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago rigiduloides E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago rostrata (Boiss. & Balansa) E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago rotata Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago rupestris M.Bieb. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago ruthenica (L.) Trautv. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago sauvagei Nègre 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago saxatilis M.Bieb. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago secundiflora Durieu 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago shepardii Post ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago sinskiae Uljanova 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago soleirolii Duby 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago sphaerocarpos Bertol. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago strumaria Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago suffruticosa Ramond ex DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago syriaca E.Small 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago tenoreana Ser. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago tetraprostrata J.S.Erikss. & B.E.Pfeil 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago todaroana Lojac. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago tornata (L.) Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago tortuosa Schwägr. ex Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Medicago vassilczenkoi Vorosch. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.