Medicago coronata (L.) Bartal. is a plant in the Fabaceae family, order Fabales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.
Medicago coronata (L.) Bartal.
Crown medick (Medicago coronata) is a Medicago species from the Mediterranean that symbioses with nitrogen-fixing Sinorhizobium meliloti.
Identify with AI — OfflineMedick is often mistaken for clover. According to a story, while Napoleon was once marching across a grassland, he noticed a medick. Intrigued, he bent down to pick it up. At that moment, a bullet was fired, and by bending down, Napoleon avoided it and survived. Because of this incident, medick has come to be recognized as a symbol of luck.
Medicago coronata (L.) Bartal., commonly known as crown medick, is a plant species that belongs to the genus Medicago.
This species is distributed across the entire Mediterranean basin.
It forms a symbiotic relationship with Sinorhizobium meliloti, a bacterium that can carry out nitrogen fixation.
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