Medicago-prostrata_4

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Medicago prostrata Jacq.Wild Alfalfa, DE: Liege-Schneckenklee, Liege-Luzerne, Pannonische LuzerneSlo.: polegle meteljka Dat.: May 27. 2016Lat.: 45.82643 Long.: 13.84151Code: Bot_0964/2016_DSC2602Habitat: growing on a stony road scarp, moderately inclined mountain slope, southwest aspect, full sun, dry place; mixed wood edge; skeletal ground, calcareous ground; elevation 270 m (880 feet); average precipitations 1.600-1.800 mm/year, average temperature 11-12 deg C, Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: stony soil.Place: North of village tanjel, next to the road to Nova Gorica just after the second switchback of the road, Vipavsko, Slovenia EC. Comment: Medicago prostrata is one of the 13 species of medick genus (Medicago) growing in Slovenia. It is a southeastern European plant. In Slovenia it is a moderately common medic mostly limited to the warmest (the most southwest) region in the country (Ref.: 4). Only in the Soa valley it enters the Alps and in a few other very limited regions of South Alps in Italy (Ref.: 3). In Austria, north to Slovenia, it is extremely rare in Pannonia region. Also in Czech Republic it is only known from a few localities. On the other hand, it grows in Apennines as well as in Balkan Mountains along the Adriatic Sea shore (Ref.: 5). This plant is a wild version of the very common agricultural plant Medicago sativa - variegated alfalfa.Ref.:(1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 563.(2) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 300. (3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 908.(4) N. Jogan (ed.), Gradivo za Atlas flore Slovenije (Materials for the Atlas of Flora of Slovenia), CKSF (2001), p 210.(5) Flora Croatica Database (FCD), Department of Botany, Faculty of science, FER-ZPR, University of Zagreb (2004); hirc.botanic.hr/fcd (accessed March 6. 2019)