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§1 Plant

Medicago sativa L. ssp. sativa

vernacular alfalfa — subspecies · Fabaceae

USDA
MESAS
GBIF
7068169
Rank
subspecies
alfalfa (Medicago sativa ssp. sativa)
Platephotograph · Wolfgang BacherCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 5 counties across 2 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 5 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 5 counties across 2 states/territories.

Montana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/MESAS ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/7068169 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25

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