Button Clover / قرص ستي

قرطة / طبق الراعي / الحلزونة / المطبق / فِصَّة مُسْتَديرَة / خُبز الراعي / دريدرة / إمطبق طير

Medicago orbicularis (L.) Bartal.

Seed Pods, March. This photo is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0.

Edibility and Usage

Edibility

Delicious

Edible part

Pods

Preparation

Salads

Blooming period

February to April

Foraging period

March to May

Seed collection period

May to July

Description

Perenniality

Annual

Petal colour

Yellow

Leaf type

Compound
Trifoliolate

Life form

Annual

Scientifc data

Genus

Medicago

Family

Fabaceae

Wikidata item

Q3085644

GBIF Item

Medicago orbicularis (L.) Bartal. (2965299)

Conservation status (IUCN)

Least concern

References

Al-Atawneh, N., Shehadeh, A., Amri, A., & Maxted, N. (2009). Conservation Field Guide to Medics of the Mediterranean Basin. ICARDA: Syria.
Medicago orbicularis (L.) Bartal. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-03-24.
Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
Crowfoot, Grace Mary Hood. From Cedar to Hyssop; a Study in the Folklore of Plants in Palestine. London, Sheldon Press; New York and Toronto, The Macmillan Co., 1932.

Citation

Medicago orbicularis (L.) Bartal. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/558 accessed via barari.org on 2/19/2026.