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Alfalfa: Quick Facts

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Also Known As purple medic • Medicago sativa • lucerne

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Alfalfa
Alfalfa plants (Medicago sativa) with clusters of small purple flowers and green leaves growing in a dense field.
alfalfa weevil
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa)
Stacking alfalfa during a harvest on the Stockdale Ranch, 1890. The ranch was photographed by Carleton E. Watkins for a survey of Kern county, California.
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