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Trefoil Rattlepod

Crotalaria medicaginea

Trefoil Rattlepod (Crotalaria medicaginea) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Trefoil Rattlepod (Crotalaria medicaginea) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Crotalaria medicaginea
Family
Fabaceae, order Fabales
Group
Plant

A small desert legume with yellow flowers.

  • Spot it Clover-like leaflets and yellow pea flowers.
  • Home Dry, sandy land.
  • Food web Bees visit the flowers; some moth caterpillars eat it.
  • Why it matters Adds nitrogen to poor sandy soil and feeds insects.
Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 2 verified records of this species on iNaturalist in 2022, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  3. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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