1230 Medicago lupulina L.

This rather variable species originates from Eurasia and N. Africa. It is cultivated and widely spread and naturalized in N. Europe, parts of Africa, Asia, America, Australia etc. Nowadays it belongs to the circumpolar plants (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 242 and map 233). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1965, map p. 234.