Alfalfa
Medicago sativa L.
Family: Fabaceae, Pea
Genus: Medicago ...
Alfalfa
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(lfl´f) or lucern(lsūn´), perennial leguminous plant (Medicago sativa) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), the most important pasture and hay plant in North America, also grown extensively in Argentina, ...
Alfalfa
Alfalfa information
Alfalfa - Medicago sativa (in the Fabaceae or legume family) ...
Alfalfa is a perennial herb with stems erect or sometimes prostrate, 0.3-1 m long, 5-25 or more per crown, much-branched, 4-angled. Rhizome is stout, penetrating the soil as much as 7-9 m.
Alfalfa
Medicago sativa
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Alfalfa (Medicago sativa): This perennial legume can be dug in after two or three months or left for one to two years; sow in April to July; good for alkaline soils.
Medicago sativa. Alfalfa. Introduced and cultivated for livestock forage and hay.
Melilotus officinalis. Yellow Sweet Clover. Escaped from cultivation.
Pea Subfamily
Trefoil Tribe ...
as clover honey. Alfalfa honey granulates readily.[2]
feral, cultivated
major ...
Medicago sativa (Alfalfa)
Fabaceae (Pea Family)
This soft, lovely flower is so common as to go unnoticed. Alfalfa is grown as a crop of course ("sativa" is Greek for "planted"), but it also makes a beautiful yard or garden plant.
alfalfa Medicago sativa
algarrabo; kiawe Prosopis pallida
alligatorweed Alternanthera philoxeroides
Alpine knapweed Centaurea transalpina
alsike clover Trifolium hybridum
Amatungula Carissa macrocarpa ...
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa)
Allegheny onion (Allium cernuum)
Almond (Prunus amygdalus, Prunus dulcis)
Aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis)
Aloe (Aloe species)
Amaryllis (Hippeastrum species)
Amazon lily (Eucharis grandiflora, Eucharis amazonica) ...
Sagebrush leaves compare favorably to alfalfa for livestock nutrition value. However, they also contain oils that are toxic to the symbiotic bacteria in the rumen of most ruminants. These oils have the greatest effect on cattle.
Other soil ameliorants such as alfalfa pellets, which contain enzymes that help to unlock the nutrients in fertilizers, are much used in the United States. Many growers, including some leading hybridizers, also add sewage sludge.
The nutritive value is equal to or superior to alfalfa. Leadtree has gained a favorable reputation in land reclamation, erosion control, water conservation, reforestation and soil improvement programs, and is a good cover and green manure crop.
Dry rhizomes in an open cardboard box, single layer, in a warm, dry location for a day to allow cuts to seal; if replanting in same spot, amend soil with compost or composted manure and a couple of handfuls of alfalfa pellets.
Clouded Sulphur- clover, alfalfa
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail -wild cherry, ash, tulip tree, willow, sweet bay, basswood, aspen, birch
Gray Hairstreak - plants in the pea and mallow families
Great Spangled Fritillary - violets, pansies ...
There are several variants of or plays off the name Filaree, including Alfilaria, perhaps because it so often invades alfalfa crops & it has a homonymous ring to it, echoing Alfalfa.
Burclover seeds can be sprouted just like other Medicago species, like alfalfa can. Even the seeds themselves are said to edible, but are cumbersome to collect in any quantity. California Indians apparently ate the seeds.
Cover crops such as alfalfa, soybeans and similar crops add nitrogen to the soil when planted and, when plowed under at the proper time, provide more.
Dodder is a major economic problem for such crops as alfalfa, clover, and flax.
Lure rabbits away from prized plantings by installing a patch of alfalfa or clover away from the garden. Protect young trees in winter with tree guards. Remove brush piles and tall grasses from around your garden where bunnies hide.
NOTE: Red clover (Trifolium pratense, pea family), buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum, dock family), and alfalfa (Medicago sativa, pea family) can sometimes cause similar poisoning.
Other plants used for cover crops include alfalfa, clover (red, alsike, alyce, crimson, sweet), barley, bromegrass, lespedeza. Most are sown in the early spring and plowed under in the fall.
Musk Thistle
Oklahoma State University. Alfalfa Information.
Identification/Description; Photographs; Habitat; Controls; Special Note: Excellent series of photographs ...
Habitat:
An introduced grass which seems to appear wherever horses are grazed and is planted with alfalfa as a hay crop, in waste places, old fields, roadsides and railroad embankments, logging roads where planted to prevent erosion.
He proposed a feed-lot system where the opuntia slabs, along with some alfalfa and bran, would be harvested and hauled to the cattle so that the cattle did not destroy the plants as they grazed on them.
A legume is a flowering plant that bears its protein-rich seeds in pods and can fix nitrogen from the soil (due to the symbiotic root bacteria, rhizobia). Some legumes include lentils, beans, clover, alfalfa, lespedezas, vetches, kudzu, and peas.
A sprout from newly germinated beans harvested for use as a vegetable. The sprouts can be obtained from a variety of beans and seeds with alfalfa, broccoli, and mung bean sprouts ...
Bean ...
About two dozen hairy leaflets are arranged along a midrib to form erect leaves about six inches long. The heavy, alfalfa-like taproot penetrates deep underground. At maturity the silvery-hairy legumes (pods) are about as long as the flowers.
You can eat the sprouted seeds, abundant in spring, often weedy in gardens. Use them as you would alfalfa or bean sprouts. They are not choice, but offer a bit of diversity and wild food to the diet.
Grows well with most plants, especially roses, carrots, beet and chamomile, but it inhibits the growth of legumes[18, 20, 54]. This plant is a bad companion for alfalfa, each species negatively affecting the other[201].
Medicago sativa (Greek Alfalfa, Lucerne)
Millettia reticulata (Evergreen Wisteria)
Mimosa aculeaticarpa var. biuncifera (Catclaw Mimosa, Wait-a-Minute Bush)
Mimosa borealis (Fragrant Mimosa, Pink Mimosa) ...
 See also: May, Clove, Clover, Green, Grass
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