Flora

Medicago rigidula (L.) All., it is an annual or biennial herb, 10-50 cm, prostrate, hairy or pubescent. Leaflets obovate, wedge-shaped, toothed, lancinated stipules. Yellow flowers, 1-2, rarely 3-6, on awned peduncles shorter or longer than the leaf, pedicels shorter than calyx tube, wings shorter than the hull. Pods pubescent or hairy, discoid-sub cylindrical or barrel-shaped, convex at both ends, with 4-6 tight whorls, with thick, rounded edges, equipped with spaced, spreading, conical, hooked spines. Seeds not arched.

Flowering in: Mar-May.

Tripolitania:  Reported from Tripolitania by Pampanini and Keith

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:  El-Hamamah to Biada 2003

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20011853-1

Link of images: https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=5003,  https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/medicago-rigidula,    https://dryades.units.it/euganei/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&id=2582&num=2317,   https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/medicago/rigidula/

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20011853-1,  https://www.ipni.org/n/20011853-1,   https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213465,  https://www.gbif.org/species/2965438,  https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/147220/medicago-rigidula-l-all,   https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/726.html,  https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/medicago-rigidula,   https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=5003,   https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_luzerneraide.php, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/medrig/,  http://www.menudanatura.com/2016/05/medicago-rigidula-l-all.html,   https://dryades.units.it/euganei/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&id=2582&num=2317,   https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/medicago/rigidula/,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicago_rigidula