Medicago marina L
A perennial sand-loving plant, native to the Mediterranean and quite widespread on the coasts of Europe and the rest of the world. It spreads by creeping over the sand with its gray-green leaves covered in silvery hairs that give it a velvety appearance. The bright yellow flower with its characteristic shape opens in early spring.
In Kythira, it begins to bloom from January.
The name of the genus medicago<medica used by Theophrastus for the common clover comes from the Greek word μηδική (medika). The species was introduced to Greece during the Median Wars and was therefore considered to originate from Media, a region northwest of Iran. Strabo (II, 560).
