Medicago intertexta (L.) Mill., it is a nearly glabrous procumbent or ascending annual up to 50 cm. Leaflets obovate, cuneate, denticulate, sometimes with a dark spot; stipules ovate to ovate-lanceolate, incise-dentate. Racemes 1- 7(-10)-flowered. Corolla 6-9 mm. Legume 12-15 mm in diameter, in a spiral of (3-) 6-10 turns, ovoid, cylindrical or rarely discoid, convex at both ends, glabrous except often for the spines; transverse veins strong, anastomosing and forming a tangentially elongated network; spines usually 3-4 mm, curved and appressed to the legume.
Flowering in: Mar-May.
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