BURR MEDIC

Burr medic (Medicago polymorpha) has hairless (i.e. glabrous) stems and leaves. Its flowers are borne in small clusters, each containing 2-10 flowers. The coiled fruit (4-11 mm across) are covered in slender spines, or they are occasionally spineless and have a bumpy (i.e. tuberculate) surface.

Burr medic (Medicago polymorpha) is regarded as an environmental weed in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia.

Widely naturalised throughout most of the country, but most common in southern and eastern Australia. Common in southern and central Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, southern South Australia and south-western Western Australia. A common weed of crops, pastures, riparian vegetation, revegetation areas, roadsides, disturbed istes, waste areas, parks, footpaths, gardens, lawns and other turfed areas.

Spray FireHawk Bioherbicide Concentrate: 50 mL/L of water. Respray if required