| Family: Papilionaceae | Genus: Crotalaria | Species: Crotalaria medicaginea Lam.( गुलाबी, औषधी ताग ) |
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| Synonym | Crotalaria foliosa Willd., Crotalaria procumbens Roxb., Crotalaria virgata C.Mart. | Flower Color | Yellow - Orange |
| Common Name | Gulabi | Flower Type | Raceme |
| English / Trade Name | Medick Rattlepod | Flowering Period | April-June |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Gulabi, Aushadi taag | Fruiting Period | July-Sept |
| Altitude | Up to 2000 m | Fruit Type | Pod |
| Habit | Shrub | Fruit Details | Fruit is almost spherical, about 4 mm or less long, velvety, beaked, 2-seeded. |
| Habitat | Common; waste places, road sides. | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Throughout warmer parts of India, ascending to 2000 m on Himalaya; Indomalaysia. | Bark Details | Stem is branched, sparsely velvety, hairs prostrate. |
| Distribution in Haryana | Gurgaon | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Compound | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Trifoliate | ||
| Description of Species | Perennial, erect or prostrate-ascending shrub, 30-80 cm high; stem and branches appressed pubescent. Leaves 3-foliate; leaflets subsessile; ovate-oblanceolae, 1.35 x 2-6 mm, obtuse to subtruncate, mucronate, glabrous above, pubescent below. Flowers yellow, 2-6, in close, terminal or leaf opposed racemes; bracts linear, acute. Corolla 3-6 mm long, less than twice as long as calyx; veaxillum pubescent outside; wing feathery; keel incurved, beaked, 2-seeded. | Leaf Details | Leaves 3-foliate; leaflets subsessile; ovate-oblanceolae, 1.35 x 2-6 mm, obtuse to subtruncate, mucronate, glabrous above, pubescent below. |
