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Medicago suffruticosa is a small, low-growing, shrubby perennial legume from southern France, northern and eastern Spain and Morocco, with light green leaves, yellow flowers and spiral seedpods. It is rarely grown as an ornamental, so care advice is general and based on related Medicago species.
Medicago suffruticosa is a species of plant from the family Fabaceae in the genus Medicago.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Medicago suffruticosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
