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Medicago sativa

Alfalfa

IUCN: least concern

27

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1911

First collected

2026

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Medicago sativa, most mentions first.

  1. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2025

  3. 2001

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2001: -02: Articles

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 1999

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1998: Part 2: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & L.G. Eldredge, eds · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 1998

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1998: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  6. 1997

    Contributions to the flora of Hawaii

    Wagner, W.L. & R.T. Shannon · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  7. 1995

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994: notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & S.E. Miller, editors · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  8. 1994

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

8 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1910s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1911 by Forbes, C.N. (Hawaiʻi Island).

From the collection

Medicago sativa, 471817Medicago sativa, 668286Medicago sativa, 805431Medicago sativa, 55644Medicago sativa, 55643Medicago sativa, 55647Medicago sativa, 55641Medicago sativa, 441484Medicago sativa, 788042Medicago sativa, 155028Medicago sativa, 685824Medicago sativa, 55648