Index / Search / Medicago sativa ssp. sativa
§1 Plant
Medicago sativa L. ssp. sativa
vernacular alfalfa — subspecies · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Medicago
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 246 counties across 21 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 246 counties across 21 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 17 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 40 I ▾
- Anderson 21005
- Barren 21009
- Bath 21011
- Bell 21013
- Bracken 21023
- Breckinridge 21027
- Bullitt 21029
- Edmonson 21061
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Fulton 21075
- Gallatin 21077
- Grant 21081
- Hardin 21093
- Henry 21103
- Hickman 21105
- Hopkins 21107
- Jackson 21109
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Kenton 21117
- Lewis 21135
- Lincoln 21137
- Madison 21151
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- Meade 21163
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Ohio 21183
- Oldham 21185
- Owen 21187
- Pendleton 21191
- Pike 21195
- Pulaski 21199
- Rockcastle 21203
- Rowan 21205
- Russell 21207
- Scott 21209
- Spencer 21215
Louisiana view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 7 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chautauqua 36013
- Delaware 36025
- Erie 36029
- Kings 36047
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Otsego 36077
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schoharie 36095
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 35 I ▾
- Alexander 37003
- Alleghany 37005
- Ashe 37009
- Avery 37011
- Bertie 37015
- Burke 37023
- Carteret 37031
- Caswell 37033
- Catawba 37035
- Cherokee 37039
- Cleveland 37045
- Craven 37049
- Currituck 37053
- Davidson 37057
- Durham 37063
- Forsyth 37067
- Guilford 37081
- Haywood 37087
- Iredell 37097
- Lincoln 37109
- Madison 37115
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Mitchell 37121
- Northampton 37131
- Orange 37135
- Polk 37149
- Randolph 37151
- Rockingham 37157
- Rowan 37159
- Stokes 37169
- Union 37179
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
- Wilkes 37193
- Yancey 37199
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 36 I ▾
- Barbour 54001
- Berkeley 54003
- Braxton 54007
- Brooke 54009
- Calhoun 54013
- Fayette 54019
- Gilmer 54021
- Greenbrier 54025
- Hampshire 54027
- Hancock 54029
- Hardy 54031
- Harrison 54033
- Jefferson 54037
- Kanawha 54039
- Logan 54045
- Marion 54049
- Marshall 54051
- McDowell 54047
- Mercer 54055
- Mineral 54057
- Monongalia 54061
- Monroe 54063
- Nicholas 54067
- Ohio 54069
- Pleasants 54073
- Pocahontas 54075
- Preston 54077
- Putnam 54079
- Raleigh 54081
- Ritchie 54085
- Summers 54089
- Tucker 54093
- Upshur 54097
- Wetzel 54103
- Wirt 54105
- Wyoming 54109
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MESAS ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7068169 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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