| English | bur medic | | | 1 | University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource). |
| English | bur trefoil | | | 1 | Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). |
| English | California bur-clover | | | 1 | Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California |
| English | hairy medic | | as Medicago nigra | 1 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Medicago nigra |
| English | rough medic | | | 1 | Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). |
| English | toothed bur-clover | | | 1 | Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966-. Flora of Iraq. |
| English | toothed medic | | | 1 | Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. |
| English | toothed medick | | | 1 | Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). |
| English | trefoil-clover | | | 1 | Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). |
| Arabic | nafal | | | 2 | Boulos, L. 1999-. Flora of Egypt |
| French | luzerne hérissée | | as Medicago nigra | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Medicago nigra |
| German | rauher Schneckenklee | | as Medicago nigra | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Medicago nigra |
| Italian | medica ispida | | | 2 | International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. |
| Japanese Rōmaji | uma-goyashi | | | 2 | Batra, L. R. 1995. Names of Japanese plants sorted by their Japanese names in Romanized Katakana and scientific nomenclature |
| Spanish | carretón de amores | | as Medicago nigra | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Medicago nigra |
| Spanish | trébol de carretilla | | as Medicago nigra | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Medicago nigra |
| Swedish | tagglusern | | | 2 | Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) |
| Transcribed Chinese | nan mu xu | | | 2 | Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). |
| Transcribed Korean | gaejari | | as Medicago hispida | 2 | Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea. Note: = Medicago polymorpha L. |