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§1 Plant

Medicago minima (L.) L.

vernacular little bur-clover — species · Fabaceae


USDA
MEMI
GBIF
8073758
Rank
species
little bur-clover (Medicago minima)
Platephotograph · Gerry CarrCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Fabaceae Lindl.
Genus
Medicago
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 114 counties across 20 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 114 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 114 counties across 20 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 2 I
Arizona view state ↗ 3 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I
California view state ↗ 10 I
Florida view state ↗ 2 I
Hawaii view state ↗ 2 I
Kansas view state ↗ 11 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 7 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 I
New York view state ↗ 2 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I
Oklahoma view state ↗ 5 I
Oregon view state ↗ 1 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 I
Texas view state ↗ 51 I
Virginia view state ↗ 4 I
Washington view state ↗ 1 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/MEMI ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/8073758 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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