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[Botanical description](https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/weeds/plants/alfalfa.htm)", "Check for short racemes of pea-shaped, usually purple or lavender flowers together with tightly coiled pods; record missing flowers or fruits as identification limitations. [Botanical description](https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/weeds/plants/alfalfa.htm)", "Against black medic, inspect flowers and mature fruits: black medic has small yellow flowerheads and dark, single-seeded curled pods, rather than the typical purple-flowered alfalfa combination. [Black medic description](https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/weeds/plants/black_medic.htm)", "Against yellow lucerne or falcata-associated material, compare flower colour and pod curvature; yellow flowers and less tightly coiled pods warrant taxonomic review rather than rejection based on colour alone. [Comparison with yellow lucerne](https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/weeds/plants/alfalfa.htm)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "vegetative provisional; reproductive morphology supported; expert verified; molecularly supported; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a common name or trifoliate leaf from being treated as conclusive identification." }, { "name": "Cultivar and seed origin", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to cultivar designation, seed lot, supplier evidence and establishment event; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of adaptation, dormancy, resistance and declared breeding traits." }, { "name": "Developmental stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "germinating; seedling; vegetative; bud; flowering; pod development; mature seed; dormant; dead", "why_it_matters": "Separates establishment needs, forage readiness and reproductive opportunity." }, { "name": "Regrowth interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Days since emergence or most recent cutting or grazing, with event type and date", "why_it_matters": "Places canopy observations in the correct growth cycle." }, { "name": "Live crown and stem density", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Live crowns/m² and live stems/m², measured separately with sampling area and method", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes surviving plants from their current shoot production." }, { "name": "Crown and taproot condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Firm and intact; discoloured; soft or rotted; mechanically injured; uncertain; sampled tissue specified", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess persistence when above-ground appearance is misleading." }, { "name": "Nodulation evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Not examined; absent in sample; present; internal appearance recorded; functional assessment available", "why_it_matters": "Keeps observed nodules separate from an unsupported claim about nitrogen fixation." }, { "name": "Root-zone exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Soil pH; electrical conductivity with method; soil water measurement; waterlogging duration in hours or days", "why_it_matters": "Supports investigation of establishment failure and stress using measured site conditions." }, { "name": "Forage biomass and composition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg dry matter/ha; leaf:stem dry-mass ratio; crude protein and fibre fractions as % dry matter, with sampling method", "why_it_matters": "Connects harvest choices to measured crop output and quality." }, { "name": "Reproductive output", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Flowering stems as % sampled stems; pods per sampled raceme; filled seeds per pod; germination %", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes flowering from successful production of viable seed." } ], "affordances": [ "Inspect and document leaves, flowers, pods and crowns to support identification or request specialist review.", "Establish plants from traceable seed and monitor emergence, survival and nodulation.", "Sample standing biomass and development to compare harvest timing with regrowth and persistence objectives.", "Monitor crown health, stand thinning and stress to decide whether further diagnosis or management adjustment is warranted.", "Manage flowering for seed production while assessing pollinator activity and neighbouring alfalfa flowering.", "Assess renovation, reseeding or removal using surviving crowns, previous alfalfa occupancy and subsequent regrowth observations." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "src-usda-plants", "title": "Medicago sativa L. - alfalfa", "url": "https://plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=MESA", "what_it_supports": "Accepted scientific name, USDA PLANTS symbol MESA, U.S. nativity and distribution framing, and the North American common name alfalfa.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "src-powo", "title": "Medicago sativa L.", "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:506308-1", "what_it_supports": "Kew Plants of the World Online accepted name, IPNI Life Sciences Identifier, and the global taxonomic placement of the species.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "src-grin", "title": "Medicago sativa L. (GRIN-Global)", "url": "https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=23690", "what_it_supports": "USDA-ARS GRIN taxonomy, common names alfalfa and lucerne, and the crop-plant identity used in germplasm banking.", "url_status": "unverified" }, { "id": "src-oecd-seed", "title": "OECD Seed Schemes: Medicago sativa", "url": "https://www.oecd.org/agriculture/seeds/", "what_it_supports": "International seed-certification scheme covering alfalfa/lucerne cultivars in international trade.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "src-codex-1214", "title": "Harmonized System heading 1214 - Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa)", "url": "https://www.wcoomd.org/en/topics/nomenclature/instrument-and-tools/hs-nomenclature-2022-edition.aspx", "what_it_supports": "Customs classification of alfalfa/lucerne forage (hay, meal, pellets) in international trade.", "url_status": "unverified" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "alfalfa-identity-and-origin", "name": "Alfalfa identity and origin", "description": "Establish which biological material is being treated as Medicago sativa and how confidently it belongs to this entry.", "rationale": "Vegetative lookalikes, cultivar variation and uncertain boundaries around falcata-associated material can change identification and management assumptions.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-plant-characters", "name": "Diagnostic plant characters", "description": "Combine leaf, flower and pod observations from the same plant or documented sample.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-alfalfa-identification", "name": "Supported alfalfa identification", "description": "Record the character combination supporting identification, alternatives considered and evidence still missing.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do leaflet margins, flower arrangement and mature pod form jointly support Medicago sativa over clovers, black medic or another Medicago?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-alfalfa-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which photographs, specimen or expert determination support the identification, and were reproductive structures available?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-alfalfa-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivar-and-taxonomic-context", "name": "Cultivar and taxonomic context", "description": "Preserve seed provenance and uncertain infraspecific or hybrid assignments.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-biological-material", "name": "Documented biological material", "description": "Distinguish verified cultivar information from inferred traits and leave unresolved taxonomic assignments explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What seed-lot or breeding record supports the cultivar name, dormancy rating, resistance claims or declared engineered traits?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-biological-material-q01" }, { "text": "Does the chosen taxonomic authority include the observed falcata-associated or hybrid material within Medicago sativa, and how should uncertainty remain attached to this registry entry?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-biological-material-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "establishment-and-root-function", "name": "Establishment and root function", "description": "Assess emergence, root development and the evidence for a functioning alfalfa-rhizobial association.", "rationale": "A newly emerged seedling and an established crown have different vulnerabilities; failed establishment also requires distinguishing site history from current root problems.", "layers": [ { "id": "seedling-establishment", "name": "Seedling establishment", "description": "Track emergence and survival against seed condition, sowing history and previous alfalfa occupancy.", "findings": [ { "id": "establishment-success-and-reseeding-context", "name": "Establishment success and reseeding context", "description": "Record emergence and mortality while retaining competition and potential autotoxicity as separate explanations for poor reseeding. [Alfalfa reseeding discussion](https://ucanr.edu/blog/sjc-and-delta-field-crops/article/alfalfa-qa-notes-field)", "questions": [ { "text": "What proportion of the sown viable seed produced surviving seedlings, and how does survival vary across the sampled area?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "establishment-success-and-reseeding-context-q01" }, { "text": "When was alfalfa last present, do old plants or decomposing crowns remain, and what local evidence is needed before reseeding?", "kind": "action", "id": "establishment-success-and-reseeding-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "taproots-and-nodules", "name": "Taproots and nodules", "description": "Inspect below-ground development and separate nodule observations from confirmed function or disease.", "findings": [ { "id": "root-and-symbiosis-evidence", "name": "Root and symbiosis evidence", "description": "Record root extent, branching, lesions and nodule observations with the excavation method and limits of diagnosis.", "questions": [ { "text": "What root depth or sampled root extent, branching pattern and nodule distribution are actually observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "root-and-symbiosis-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports effective nodulation, and what further assessment would distinguish ineffective nodules, root galls and other root abnormalities?", "kind": "definition", "id": "root-and-symbiosis-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "regrowth-and-stand-persistence", "name": "Regrowth and stand persistence", "description": "Represent repeated shoot production, crown survival and seasonal recovery.", "rationale": "Alfalfa management depends on successive growth cycles and surviving crowns, so a single canopy measurement cannot establish long-term condition.", "layers": [ { "id": "cutting-cycle-development", "name": "Cutting-cycle development", "description": "Relate current maturity and shoot growth to recent defoliation and recovery.", "findings": [ { "id": "recovery-after-defoliation", "name": "Recovery after defoliation", "description": "Record maturity, regrowth and cutting history when assessing harvest-persistence tradeoffs; avoid treating canopy height as a direct measurement of root reserves. [Harvest and regrowth guidance](https://blog-crop-news.extension.umn.edu/2022/05/managing-risk-at-first-alfalfa-harvest.html)", "questions": [ { "text": "How many days have elapsed since the last defoliation, and what stem height, developmental stage and new-shoot distribution are observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recovery-after-defoliation-q01" }, { "text": "Does the stand's recovery and locally supported seasonal guidance justify another cut, grazing event or additional rest?", "kind": "action", "id": "recovery-after-defoliation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "crown-survival-and-seasonality", "name": "Crown survival and seasonality", "description": "Assess whether reduced growth reflects seasonal behaviour, temporary stress or loss of viable plants.", "findings": [ { "id": "persistent-live-stand", "name": "Persistent live stand", "description": "Combine live crown counts, stem production, root inspection and cultivar context before assigning decline or mortality.", "questions": [ { "text": "How have live crown density, stems per crown and the proportion of injured crowns changed between comparable surveys?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "persistent-live-stand-q01" }, { "text": "What observations distinguish dormancy or delayed regrowth from irreversible crown death in this cultivar and climate?", "kind": "definition", "id": "persistent-live-stand-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "stress-damage-and-response", "name": "Stress, damage and response", "description": "Connect alfalfa symptoms with environmental exposure, damaging organisms and intervention evidence.", "rationale": "Yellowing, stunting and thinning can arise from different causes that require different responses.", "layers": [ { "id": "root-zone-and-weather-stress", "name": "Root-zone and weather stress", "description": "Relate plant condition to water availability, drainage, salinity, nutrition and temperature exposure.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-stress-attribution", "name": "Supported stress attribution", "description": "Retain competing explanations until plant observations and site measurements justify a causal assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which measured root-zone conditions and weather events coincide with wilting, yellowing, restricted roots or failed regrowth?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-stress-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "What additional soil, tissue or root assessment would change the decision to irrigate, amend nutrition or defer intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-stress-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "alfalfa-pests-and-disease", "name": "Alfalfa pests and disease", "description": "Record damaging organisms, symptoms, beneficial organisms and the crop's intended use.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnosis-linked-intervention", "name": "Diagnosis-linked intervention", "description": "Require organism identification and relevant sampling before selecting an intervention, with linked checks for harvest intervals and pollinator effects. [UC alfalfa IPM guidance](https://ipm.ucanr.edu/agriculture/alfalfa/integrated-pest-management/)", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes alfalfa weevil feeding, aphid injury, crown or root disease and non-biological damage in this stand?", "kind": "definition", "id": "diagnosis-linked-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally validated threshold, crop stage and forage-versus-seed objective support intervention, and what harvest or pollinator constraints apply?", "kind": "action", "id": "diagnosis-linked-intervention-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "forage-and-seed-outcomes", "name": "Forage and seed outcomes", "description": "Assess what the living alfalfa crop can produce and when responsibility passes to product or neighbouring ecological models.", "rationale": "Forage harvest and seed production require different timing and evidence; flowering also creates links to neighbouring alfalfa populations.", "layers": [ { "id": "standing-forage-readiness", "name": "Standing forage readiness", "description": "Evaluate harvestable biomass, maturity, leaf retention and sampled composition before cutting or grazing.", "findings": [ { "id": "purpose-specific-harvest-readiness", "name": "Purpose-specific harvest readiness", "description": "Record the evidence for harvest timing and transfer the identity and condition of removed material to the relevant forage-product model.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dry-matter yield, maturity distribution, leaf retention and measured forage composition support the intended harvest?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "purpose-specific-harvest-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations must accompany harvested or grazed material into forage and livestock models before suitability for a particular animal group is decided?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "purpose-specific-harvest-readiness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pollination-seed-and-spread", "name": "Pollination, seed and spread", "description": "Track flowering overlap, pollination evidence, seed maturation and recruitment beyond the intended stand.", "findings": [ { "id": "effective-reproduction-and-movement", "name": "Effective reproduction and movement", "description": "Distinguish flower presence from viable seed and record neighbouring flowering alfalfa when assessing pollen-mediated trait movement. [Alfalfa coexistence guidance](https://ucanr.edu/blog/uc-weed-science-weed-control-management-ecology-and-minutia/article/co-existence-rr-and)", "questions": [ { "text": "What pollinator activity, pod set, filled-seed counts and germination results demonstrate successful reproduction?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "effective-reproduction-and-movement-q01" }, { "text": "Given neighbouring flowering alfalfa and observed volunteers, should flowering be retained for seed, interrupted or followed by recruitment monitoring?", "kind": "action", "id": "effective-reproduction-and-movement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Medicago sativa subsp. sativa (purple-flowered cultivated alfalfa)", "Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (yellow-flowered, cold-hardy sickle lucerne)", "Medicago sativa nothosubsp. varia (sativa × falcata hybrid; variegated flowers)", "Fall-dormancy classes FD 1-11 (the practical agronomic grouping of cultivars)", "Hay-type vs grazing-type (or grazing-tolerant) cultivars", "Flemish / northern European types vs Mediterranean / non-dormant types", "Glyphosate-tolerant (Roundup Ready) transgenic cultivars vs conventional cultivars", "Landraces and wild or semi-wild populations versus certified named cultivars" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Medicago sativa this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q156106", "note": "Item for the species Medicago sativa." }, { "scheme": "ITIS TSN", "value_or_pattern": "183623", "note": "Integrated Taxonomic Information System taxonomic serial number." }, { "scheme": "USDA PLANTS symbol", "value_or_pattern": "MESA", "note": "Standard plants-database symbol for Medicago sativa L." }, { "scheme": "IPNI / POWO LSID", "value_or_pattern": "urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:506308-1", "note": "Linnaean name Medicago sativa L.; Kew POWO accepted taxon." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "3879", "note": "NCBI taxid for Medicago sativa." }, { "scheme": "GRIN taxon id", "value_or_pattern": "23690", "note": "USDA-ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network." }, { "scheme": "EPPO code", "value_or_pattern": "MEDSA", "note": "EPPO Global Database code used in plant health." }, { "scheme": "HS / CN", "value_or_pattern": "1214.10 (lucerne/alfalfa meal and pellets); 1214.90 (other, including hay)", "note": "WCO Harmonized System headings for traded forage products, not the living plant." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Medicago sativa this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "ISTA International Rules for Seed Testing - International Seed Testing Association (purity, germination, other-seed counts for lucerne/alfalfa seed lots)", "AOSA Rules for Testing Seeds - Association of Official Seed Analysts (North American official seed testing of alfalfa)", "OECD Seed Schemes (Grass and Legume Seed) - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( varietal identity and certification of Medicago sativa in international seed trade)", "UPOV Test Guidelines TG/6/5 Medicago sativa L. - International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (DUS examination for plant-variety protection)", "Federal Seed Act and state certified-seed rules - USDA Agricultural Marketing Service and U.S. state seed-certifying agencies (labeling, noxious-weed seed, germination claims)", "Directive 66/401/EEC (fodder-plant seed marketing), as retained or recast nationally - European Union / member-state seed authorities (marketing of certified lucerne seed)", "APHIS biotechnology regulation of glyphosate-tolerant alfalfa events (e.g. J101, J163) - USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service", "Feed hygiene and contaminant limits for alfalfa hay, meal and pellets (mycotoxins, pesticide residues, undesirable substances) - Codex Alimentarius; EU undesirable-substances in feed (Directive 2002/32/EC); national feed-control bodies" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Medicago sativa this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Primary perennial hay and silage crop in temperate dairy and beef systems (cut 3-8+ times per year depending on climate and dormancy class).", "Grazed pasture or mixed grass-legume swards, including stockpiled autumn grazing in some regions.", "Dehydrated meal, cubes and pellets sold as a high-protein, high-calcium feed ingredient, including to horses and as a dairy concentrate extender.", "Nitrogen-fixing rotation or cover crop that leaves residual N for following cereals; also used as green manure when ploughed in.", "Sprouted seed sold as a salad vegetable (alfalfa sprouts); seed is a distinct food-safety pathway from forage.", "Honey plant: extrafloral and floral nectar supporting commercial alfalfa-leafcutter-bee (Megachile rotundata) seed production in western North America.", "Germplasm and breeding: public and private cultivar development for fall dormancy, disease resistance, grazing tolerance and, in some markets, herbicide tolerance.", "Exported as compressed hay and pellets from the western United States, Canada, Australia and Spain into East Asian livestock markets." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Medicago sativa this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Crude protein in well-made vegetative hay", "typical_range": "16-22 (exceptionally 14-25)", "unit": "% of dry matter" }, { "quantity": "Neutral detergent fibre (NDF) of hay at mid-bud to early bloom", "typical_range": "38-48", "unit": "% of dry matter" }, { "quantity": "Fall dormancy rating of commercial cultivars", "typical_range": "1-11", "unit": "dimensionless class (NAAIC standard tests)" }, { "quantity": "Seeding rate (drilled, pure stand)", "typical_range": "8-20 (typically 12-18 in humid regions; lower in arid irrigated stands)", "unit": "kg ha⁻¹" }, { "quantity": "Taproot depth of established plants", "typical_range": "2-5 (occasionally deeper on unrestricted soils)", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Seed germination (certified seed, laboratory)", "typical_range": "80-95 (hard seed often 5-20 of the remainder)", "unit": "%" }, { "quantity": "Dry-matter yield of irrigated temperate stands", "typical_range": "8-20", "unit": "t ha⁻¹ year⁻¹" }, { "quantity": "Chromosome number of cultivated alfalfa", "typical_range": "2n = 4x = 32", "unit": "chromosomes" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Medicago sativa this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Autotoxicity and poor autogenic reseeding: established stands suppress new alfalfa seedlings, so rotation out of alfalfa is usually required before re-establishment.", "Winterkill and ice-sheet injury in low-dormancy cultivars grown too far north; conversely, overly dormant cultivars yield poorly in long-season climates.", "Crown and root diseases (Phytophthora root rot, Aphanomyces, anthracnose, Verticillium wilt, Fusarium, bacterial wilt) that thin stands after 3-6 years.", "Insect damage: alfalfa weevil (Hypera postica), potato leafhopper (Empoasca fabae) causing hopperburn, aphids, and in some regions clover root curculio.", "Bloat (frothy ruminal tympany) when hungry ruminants graze lush pure-stand alfalfa, especially in vegetative growth.", "Sprout-associated human foodborne illness (Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria) from seed that cannot be fully surface-sterilised; several national outbreaks have been traced to alfalfa sprouts.", "Photosensitisation and, rarely, cantharidin poisoning when blister beetles (Epicauta spp.) are conserved in crimped hay and fed to horses.", "Adventitious presence of transgenic (glyphosate-tolerant) seed in conventional or organic lots, which has triggered export rejections and coexistence disputes.", "Mycotoxins and heating/mould in poorly cured hay; dust and respirable particles causing farmer's lung (extrinsic allergic alveolitis) in hay handlers." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Medicago sativa this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "English common name is alfalfa in North America and much of Latin America (Spanish alfalfa), and lucerne in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and much of non-Romance Europe.", "Fall-dormancy classification (FD 1-11) is the North American commercial language; Europe more often speaks in terms of Mediterranean vs Flemish/northern types and winter-hardiness scores.", "Seed production is concentrated in arid irrigated districts (Pacific Northwest, California, Idaho; also Canada, Australia, France, Argentina) even when the forage is grown in humid dairy regions.", "China, the United States, Argentina and the EU are large forage producers; Japan, Korea and the Arabian Peninsula are major importers of compressed hay rather than local growers.", "Subsp. falcata and hybrid varia material is agronomically important in continental and boreal climates (Russia, northern Plains, Scandinavia, Inner Asia) and is often invisible in Mediterranean seed catalogues.", "Organic and export-to-China/Japan markets treat adventitious GMO presence as a hard barrier; those constraints barely exist in some purely domestic feed markets.", "Sprout consumption as a ready-to-eat vegetable is common in North America and parts of Europe and East Asia, and is almost absent as a use-class in regions that know the plant only as fodder." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Medicago sativa this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Medicago falcata (sickle medic; often treated as M. sativa subsp. falcata)", "difference": "Yellow (not purple) flowers, sickle-shaped rather than coiled pods, typically diploid, and greater cold hardiness; flower colour and pod coiling separate field plants, while chromosome count and molecular markers separate breeding material." }, { "name": "Medicago × varia (hybrid lucerne / sand lucerne)", "difference": "Variegated or mixed purple-yellow flowers and intermediate pod shape; treated as the sativa × falcata hybrid (nothosubsp. varia). Flower-colour mix in a stand is the field test; pedigree or marker data is the breeding test." }, { "name": "Medicago lupulina (black medic)", "difference": "Annual or short-lived, much smaller plants, yellow flowers, and black coiled pods; a lawn and roadside weed, not a hay crop. Size, life cycle and pod colour separate it at a glance." }, { "name": "Medicago polymorpha and other annual medics (burr medic, barrel medic)", "difference": "Winter-annual medics of Mediterranean and southern-Australian ley farming, with spiny burrs that contaminate wool; distinguished from alfalfa by annual habit, yellow flowers, and spiny pods." }, { "name": "Trifolium pratense (red clover)", "difference": "Another perennial forage legume cut for hay, but with palmate trifoliolate leaflets lacking alfalfa's serrate tip, sessile pink flower heads, and a shallower root system. Leaflet shape and inflorescence separate them in the field; hay can be told by leaf and flower remnants and by a typically lower protein and different isoflavone profile." }, { "name": "Melilotus officinalis / M. albus (yellow and white sweetclover)", "difference": "Taller, more branched biennials with elongate racemes of small yellow or white flowers and a strong coumarin (new-mown-hay) odour; sweetclover hay can cause dicoumarol bleeding in livestock if spoiled. Odour, inflorescence shape and biennial habit separate them from alfalfa." }, { "name": "Onobrychis viciifolia (sainfoin)", "difference": "Non-bloating perennial forage with pinnate (not trifoliolate) leaves and dense pink spike inflorescences; used where bloat risk or calcareous soils make alfalfa a poor choice. Leaf dissection and inflorescence are decisive." }, { "name": "Medicago truncatula (barrel medic)", "difference": "A diploid annual model species in genomics, not a perennial hay crop; distinguished by annual habit, coiled spiny pods, and NCBI/community use as the model rather than the crop. Do not treat genome papers on M. truncatula as if they described cultivated alfalfa." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Medicago sativa this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which taxonomic authority should govern inclusion of falcata-associated subspecies and hybrids within this unsplit registry entry?", "Which region- and cultivar-specific dormancy, winter survival and cutting criteria are sufficiently supported to guide actions?", "Which sampling methods and thresholds best distinguish a recoverable thin stand from one requiring renovation under different production systems?", "What local evidence establishes reseeding intervals after alfalfa termination while separating autotoxicity, competition and disease carryover?", "Which measurements can support quantitative claims about nitrogen fixation and nutrient contribution without inferring them from nodule presence alone?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Medicago sativa, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Medicago sativa, assess the condition and reproductive potential of its plants or stands, and choose evidence-supported cultivation, harvest, conservation or removal actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 94 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Medicago sativa, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 94 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Medicago sativa from another, and a Medicago sativa from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Medicago sativa, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Medicago sativa, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Medicago sativa is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Medicago sativa, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Medicago sativa, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Medicago sativa is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Medicago sativa sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Medicago sativa, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Medicago sativa, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Medicago sativa is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Medicago sativa from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Medicago sativa, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Medicago sativa, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Medicago sativa is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a Medicago sativa is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a Medicago sativa, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a Medicago sativa, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a Medicago sativa is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a Medicago sativa and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Medicago sativa, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a Medicago sativa, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a Medicago sativa is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a Medicago sativa is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Medicago sativa, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Medicago sativa, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Medicago sativa is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Medicago sativa is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Medicago sativa is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Medicago sativa, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Medicago sativa, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Medicago sativa is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Medicago sativa moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Medicago sativa, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Medicago sativa, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Medicago sativa is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Medicago sativa passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Medicago sativa between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Medicago sativa, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Medicago sativa, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Medicago sativa is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Medicago sativa, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Medicago sativa is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Medicago sativa, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Medicago sativa, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Medicago sativa is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What Medicago sativa is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of Medicago sativa, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate Medicago sativa from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Medicago sativa from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What Medicago sativa does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Medicago sativa pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of Medicago sativa judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where Medicago sativa lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of Medicago sativa, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does Medicago sativa hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Medicago sativa came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Medicago sativa and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Medicago 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