Medicago sativa, Alfalfa, lucerne, perennial spreading herb with trifoliate compound leaves, bluish purple flowers, fodder crop

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Medicago sativa, Alfalfa, lucerne, perennial spreading herb from family Fabaceae, with trifoliate compound leaves and bluish purple flowers in dense clusters on long peduncle, fruits spirally coiled with 2-3 turns containing up to 20 seeds. Important fodder crop, used for grazing, hay and silage. With root nodules containing nitrogen fixing bacteria, it is useful for crop rotation

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Location: Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Photo credit: © Gurcharan Singh / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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