Feedback request: Medicago sativa (10570)

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Specimen #327877

Taxon:	Fabaceae: Medicago sativa subsp. sativa ("Lucerne")
Other name:	Fabaceae: Medicago sativa subsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang. ("Sand Lucerne")
Filed in taxon folder:	Fabaceae: Medicago sativa L.
Collected by:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Collection date:	1/9/1921
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Burnham, ST34, sandhills
ex herb:	Mr Isaac A Helsby
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	Forms mostly dull yellow or white, but dull purple on some tufts. Probably not a hybrid, but merely a colour form [of ssp sativa].

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Documented by oldnick on 31^st October 2011.

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oldnick wrote

See note re colour - as this may indicate varia rather than sativa, I've edited in as an alternative - which is the more likely?