Alfalfa (mendicago sativa l.)
Flor Alfalfa Plant (Bee Alfalfa leaf cutter) Source: Wikimedia Commons License: Public Domain Image View License Details: Click Here Plant highly nutritious legume used as fodder for livestock Definition - Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) Plant is a showy, beautiful and attractive when in flower, belonging to the pea family Fabaceae, or legumes, but is fit for human consumption is alfalfa mainly cultivated as an important fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses in general. In the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand is also known as alfalfa and alfalfa and grass in South Asia. India is known as in Chara, and in Gujarat and Rajka or GAD. It resembles clover by clusters of small purple flowers similar to the plant. If weather conditions are benign or best, plus a relatively fertile substrate then hydrated Alfalfa plant can grow to more than 1 meter tall, its flowers are clustered in groups compo...