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Medicago polymorpha
(Fabaceae)

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Species description or overview

Medicago polymorpha information from PIER
Information on Medicago polymorpha as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).


Taxonomy & nomenclature

GRIN nomenclature info for Medicago polymorpha
Nomenclatural information about Medicago polymorpha is provided by USDA/ARS/NGRP/GRIN.

Medicago polymorpha information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Medicago polymorpha--including nomenclature and synonymy, and status and distribution in Hawaii--is provided by the "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands" website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Links from this page include descriptive information about the species, as well as worldwide distributional information and general information about the genus.

Medicago polymorpha information from ITIS
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System ITIS provides authoritative taxonomic information on Medicago polymorpha, as well as other plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

IPNI nomenclature info for Medicago polymorpha
Nomenclatural information about Medicago polymorpha is provided by The International Plant Names Index (IPNI).


Impacts

Medicago polymorpha (Fabaceae): species information from GCW
Information on Medicago polymorpha as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).


Risk assessments

Weed risk assessment for Medicago polymorpha for Florida (TNC) View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
A weed risk assessment for Medicago polymorpha for Florida is presented by The Nature Conservancy (Doria Gordon et al.).


Images

Images of Medicago polymorpha (Fabaceae) (bur clover)
Links to high-resolution free images of Medicago polymorpha (Fabaceae) (bur clover) by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) are available here.

Medicago polymorpha information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Medicago polymorpha in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Medicago polymorpha images from PIER
Images of Medicago polymorpha provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).


Distribution

Medicago polymorpha information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Medicago polymorpha in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Medicago polymorpha information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Medicago polymorpha--including nomenclature and synonymy, and status and distribution in Hawaii--is provided by the "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands" website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Links from this page include descriptive information about the species, as well as worldwide distributional information and general information about the genus.


Full-text articles

Alien plant invasions in native ecosystems of Hawaii: Management and research
Stone, Charles P., Clifford W. Smith, and J. Timothy Tunison (eds.) . 1992. Alien plant invasions in native ecosystems of Hawaii: Management and research. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit. ISBN: 0-8248-1474-6.

Maui Offshore Islet Botanical Survey
Starr, F., K. Starr, and Wood K. 2006. Maui Offshore Islet Botanical Survey. Report prepared for State Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Offshore Islet Restoration Committee, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Botanical inventory of Kure Atoll
Starr, Forest, Kim Martz, and Lloyd Loope. 2001. Botanical inventory of Kure Atoll. Prepared for Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife (Honolulu). 47 pp. illus.

Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants on Midway Atoll, Hawaii.
Starr, F., K. Starr, and Loope L. 2006. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants on Midway Atoll, Hawaii. An addendum to the 1999 Botanical Survey of Midway Atoll.

Botanical survey of Midway Atoll
Starr, F. and K. Martz. 1999. Botanical survey of Midway Atoll. In: 1995-1999 Baseline Surveys for Alien Species in Marine and Terrestrial Habitats on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu, Hawaii.


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